Blue Flower
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780544359451
Subjects: Fiction, historical; Germany, fiction
Description: A fictionalized biography of the 18th Century German poet, Friedrich Leopold von Hardenberg, who wrote under the nom de plume, Novalis. The novel centers on his philosophy ("My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.") and on his romance with Sophie von Kuhn, 12, who became his muse, but who died of tuberculosis before they could marry. By the author of The Gates of Angels.