5/21/2023 0 Comments The blue flower book![]() ![]() "An astonishing book.Fitzgerald's greatest triumph. an original masterpiece."- Financial Times Their rationality of love, the transfiguration of the commonplace, the clarity of purpose that comes with knowing one's own fate- these are the themes of this beguiling novel, themes treated with a mix of wit, grace, and mischievous humor. ![]() Their brilliant young Fritz, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard? How can this be? ![]() It is an attachment that shocks his family and friends. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics. Fritz seeks his father's permission to wed his "heart's heart," his "spirit's guide"-a plain, simple child named Sophievon Kühn. Title: The Blue Flower Author: Fitzgerald, Penelope Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Flamingo, London Publication Date: 1995. It tells the true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a passionate, impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the romantic poet Novalis. ![]() The Blue Flower is set in the age of Goethe among the small towns and great universities of 18th-century Germany. Booker Prize-winning novelist Fitzgerald's crowning literary work centers on the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis and his love for the simple Sophie. Description A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction. ![]()
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