The Blue Flower (Paperback) by Penelope Fitzgerald

from akblanchard

The Blue Flower tells the love story of German poet Novalis's doomed engagement to a girl much younger than he is. Thirteen-year-old Sophie seems rather empty headed, and it's hard to tell exactly ...

from AlisonY

Set in the late 1700s in Germany, The Blue Flower is a fictional account of the life of Fritz von Hardenberg, who would later become known as the romantic poet and philosopher Novalis. Born into a ...

from sharlene_w

I was suggest this book by my library system's "Next Read" program because I have read and enjoyed a couple of Tracy Chevalier's books. The Blue Flower reconstructs the life of German romantic poet...

from dcnorm1

My first reading of Fitzgerald and certainly my first familiarity with Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772 - 1801), upon a portion of whose life this "true" novel is based. The style is a simple one, al...

from scohva

This novel is centered around young, late eighteenth century German student, then writer, philosopher, and salt mine inspector Friedrich Von Hardenburg, who would become the poet Novalis. When he f...