The Blue Flower

Name: The Blue Flower
Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780395859971

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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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