Longing
Subtitle: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: October 2, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780345447210
Subjects: Historical - General; Fiction / Historical; Fiction; Fiction - Historical
First sentence: On the day Robert Schumann was born in this formerly peaceful, formerly populous Saxon town on the left bank of the River Mulde, the loudest cries were not those of his mother, Christiane, being delivered of her sixth child.