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Tulip Fever is a 1999 novel by British author Deborah Moggach, set in 1630s Amsterdam. The city is in the grips of tulipomania, as people everywhere are fascinated by the exotic flower. But wealthy merchant Cornelis Sandvoort only has eyes for his young wife Sophia.
Matilda Cook is a fourteen-year-old girl living in Philadelphia in 1793. Matilda’s mother, Lucille, manages the coffeehouse, and they live above the shop with Grandfather, Matilda’s deceased father’s father, who fought in the war.
The sins of lust, greed, and vanity combine with a destructive force in the novel Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach. Three lives are changed forever when Sophia begins an affair with an attractive, young painter despite her better judgement.
"Tulip Fever" by Deborah Moggach is a historical fiction novel set in 17th century Amsterdam during the tulip mania, a period of time when the value of tulip bulbs reached extraordinarily high levels, only to crash dramatically.
Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach is a captivating historical novel set in 17th century Amsterdam. It tells the story of a forbidden love affair between a young woman, Sophia, and the artist hired to paint her portrait.
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10 kwi 2001 · What is tulip fever? 2. Tulips, flowers, and petals play a far greater role in the story than as simply a trading commodity. How? Why? 3. "Turn the paintings round and enjoy their beauty, for they shall outlast us all," writes Cornelis in his final note. How is this ironic? 4. In the 1630s, Amsterdam society was very hierarchical.
