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Book Description
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 tContinue
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lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010
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Paradise in a Dream
The sensibility of early German Romanticism seems infinitely distant to us now. The very name Novalis, the pseudonym of the poet Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772-1801), sounds like an astronomical explosion on the edge of some remote galaxy. The symbol ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 240 Pages
- Edition: 1st U.S. Ed
- ISBN-10: 0395859972
- ISBN-13: 9780395859971
- Publisher: Mariner Books
- Pub date: Apr 15, 1997
- Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780395859971 | Paperback | $13.00 | $10.42 | bn.com |
| $13.00 | $9.90 | The Book Depository | ||
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Dark Fates
Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower is a historical novel based on the life of the poet, aphorist, novelist, Friedrich von Hardenberg, a Saxon nobleman who wrote under the name of Novalis and lived from 1772 to 1801. He figures largely in all accou ... (read full critics)