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The Blue Flower (Paperback)
$9.94 - Save $3.06 23% off - RRP $13.00 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Blue FlowerIn eighteenth-century Germany, the impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis seeks his father's permission to wed his true philosophy -- a plain, simple child named Sophie. The attachment shocks his family and friends. This brilliant young man, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard! How can it be? A literary sensation and a bestseller in England and the...
Full description- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
- Published: 28 July 1997
- Format: Paperback 225 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780395859971 ISBN 10: 0395859972
- Sales rank: 111,385
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Full description for The Blue Flower
In eighteenth-century Germany, the impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis seeks his father's permission to wed his true philosophy -- a plain, simple child named Sophie. The attachment shocks his family and friends. This brilliant young man, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard! How can it be? A literary sensation and a bestseller in England and the United States, The Blue Flower was one of eleven books- and the only paperback- chosen as an Editor's Choice by the New York Times Book Review. The 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner in Fiction.
