The blue flower
by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Set in Germany at the end of the 18th century, this book tells the story of the brilliant young Fritz von Hardenberg, later to become the great romantic philosopher & poet. He announces his engagement to a 12 year old girl, to his family's consternation.
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Fiction, German Poets, Germany, History, Large type books, Poets, German, Relations with women, Fiction, historical, general, Germany, fiction, Love stories, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, historical, Literature and fiction, women authors, Literature and fiction, historical fiction, Eighteenth century, Historical fictionPlaces
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1740-1806, 18th centuryShowing 4 featured editions. View all 19 editions?
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"First published in Great Britain by Flamingo 1995"--t.p. verso.
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A fictionalized biography of the 18th Century German poet, Friedrich Leopold von Hardenberg, who wrote under the nom de plume, Novalis. The novel centers on his philosophy ("My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.") and on his romance with Sophie von Kuhn, 12, who became his muse, but who died of tuberculosis before they could marry. By the author of The Gates of Angels.
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