The Black Tulip
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas is available here as the complete text, split into 705 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The black tulip by Alexandre Dumas. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #965.
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The Black Tulip
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- Chapter I A Grateful People
- Chapter II The Two Brothers
- Chapter III The Pupil of John de Witt
- Chapter IV The Murderers
- Chapter V The Tulip-fancier and his Neighbour
- Chapter VI The Hatred of a Tulip-fancier
- Chapter VII The Happy Man makes Acquaintance with Misfortune
- Chapter VIII An Invasion
- Chapter IX The Family Cell
- Chapter X The Jailer’s Daughter
- Chapter XI Cornelius van Baerle’s Will
- Chapter XII The Execution
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV The Pigeons of Dort
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI Master and Pupil
- Chapter XVII The First Bulb
- Chapter XVIII Rosa’s Lover
- Chapter XIX The Maid and the Flower
- Chapter XX The Events which took place during those Eight Days
- Chapter XXI The Second Bulb
- Chapter XXII The Opening of the Flower
- Chapter XXIII The Rival
- Chapter XXIV The Black Tulip changes Masters
- Chapter XXV The President van Systens
- Chapter XXVI A Member of the Horticultural Society
- Chapter XXVII The Third Bulb
- Chapter XXVIII The Hymn of the Flowers
- Chapter XXIX
- Chapter XXX
- Chapter XXXI Haarlem
- Chapter XXXII A Last Request
- Chapter XXXIII Conclusion
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- August
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- Hague
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- Always
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- Lively
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