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The blue flower, Penelope Fitzgerald

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The blue flower

36104132

Penelope Fitzgerald

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

1. Washday -- 2. The Study -- 3. The Bernhard -- 4. Bernhard's Red Cap -- 5. The History of Freiherr Heinrich von Hardenberg -- 6. Uncle Wilhelm -- 7. The Freiherr and the French Revolution -- 8. In Jena -- 9. An Incident in Student Life -- 10. A Question of Money -- 11. A Disagreement -- 12. The Sense of Immortality -- 13. The Just Family -- 14. Fritz at Tennstedt -- 15. Justen -- 16. The Jena Circle -- 17. What is the Meaning? -- 18. The Rockenthiens -- 19. A Quarter of an Hour -- 20. The Nature of Desire -- 21. Snow -- 22. Now Let Me Get to Know Her -- 23. I Can't Comprehend Her -- 24. The Brothers -- 25. Christmas at Weissenfels -- 26. The Mandelsloh -- 27. Erasmus Calls on Karoline Just -- 28. From Sophie's Diary, 1795 -- 29. A Second Reading -- 30. Sophie's Likeness -- 31. I Could Not Paint Her -- 32. The Way Leads Inwards -- 33. At Jena -- 34. The Garden-House -- 35. Sophie is Cold Through and Through -- 36. Dr Hofrat Ebhard -- 37. What is Pain? -- 38. Karoline at Gruningen -- 39. The Quarrel -- 40. How to Run a Salt Mine -- 41. Sophie at Fourteen -- 42. The Freifrau in the Garden -- 43. The Engagement Party -- 44. The Intended -- 45. She Must Go to Jena -- 46. Visitors -- 47. How Professor Stark Managed -- 48. To Schloben -- 49. At the Rose -- 50. A Dream -- 51. Autumn 1796 -- 52. Erasmus is of Service -- 53. A Visit to Magister Kegel -- 54. Algebra, Like Laudanum, Deadens Pain -- 55. Magister Kegel's Lesson