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.
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.
- Harper Paperbacks
- Paperback
- October 2014
- 320 Pages
- 9780544359451
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About Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction for The Blue Flower, the Booker Prize for Offshore, and three of her novels — The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, and The Beginning of Spring — were short-listed for the Booker Prize.
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