From the Booker Prize-winning author of `Offshore' comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancee Sophie, newly introduced by Candia McWilliam.
The year is 1794 and Fritz, passionate, idealistic and brilliant, is seeking his father's permission to announce his engagement to his heart's desire: twelve-year-old Sophie. His astounded family and friends are amused and disturbed by his betrothal. What can he be thinking?
Tracing the dramatic early years of the young German who was to become the great romantic poet and philosopher Novalis, `The Blue Flower' is a masterpiece of invention, evoking the past with a reality that we can almost feel.
- ISBN10 0544359453
- ISBN13 9780544359451
- Publish Date 14 October 2014 (first published 21 September 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harper Paperbacks
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 320
- Language English