Table of Chapters

Every Chapter, In Order

Holland, 1672 — a prisoner, a jailer's daughter, and a bulb worth more than gold, in thirty-three chapters.

I
A Grateful People
Chapter I
II
The Two Brothers
Chapter II
III
The Pupil of John de Witt
Chapter III
IV
The Murderers
Chapter IV
V
The Tulip-fancier and his Neighbour
Chapter V
VI
The Hatred of a Tulip-fancier
Chapter VI
VII
The Happy Man makes Acquaintance with Misfortune
Chapter VII
VIII
An Invasion
Chapter VIII
IX
The Family Cell
Chapter IX
X
The Jailer’s Daughter
Chapter X
XI
Cornelius van Baerle’s Will
Chapter XI
XII
The Execution
Chapter XII
XIII
What was going on all this Time in the Mind of one of the
Chapter XIII
XIV
The Pigeons of Dort
Chapter XIV
XV
The Little Grated Window
Chapter XV
XVI
Master and Pupil
Chapter XVI
XVII
The First Bulb
Chapter XVII
XVIII
Rosa’s Lover
Chapter XVIII
XIX
The Maid and the Flower
Chapter XIX
XX
The Events which took place during those Eight Days
Chapter XX
XXI
The Second Bulb
Chapter XXI
XXII
The Opening of the Flower
Chapter XXII
XXIII
The Rival
Chapter XXIII
XXIV
The Black Tulip changes Masters
Chapter XXIV
XXV
The President van Systens
Chapter XXV
XXVI
A Member of the Horticultural Society
Chapter XXVI
XXVII
The Third Bulb
Chapter XXVII
XXVIII
The Hymn of the Flowers
Chapter XXVIII
XXIX
In which Van Baerle, before leaving Loewestein, settles
Chapter XXIX
XXX
Wherein the Reader begins to guess the Kind of Execution
Chapter XXX
XXXI
Haarlem
Chapter XXXI
XXXII
A Last Request
Chapter XXXII
XXXIII
Conclusion
Chapter XXXIII