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The Beginning of Spring

Penelope Fitzgerald

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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? The Blue Flower won the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction.

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Publisher
Collins
Year
1997
ISBN-13
9780395859971
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Romantic love and devotionHistorical Germany and RomanticismComing of age

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