EPISODE · May 19, 2015 · 5 MIN
The Blue Flower Audiobook by Penelope Fitzgerald
from Listen Legally to Most Popular Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Historical · host Shanon Konopelski
Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1577 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Blue Flower Author: Penelope Fitzgerald Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 05-19-15 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: The Blue Flower is set in the age of Goethe, in the small towns and great universities of late 18th-century Germany. It tells the true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a passionate, impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the romantic poet Novalis. Fritz seeks his father's permission to wed his "heart's heart," his "spirit's guide" - a plain, simple child named Sophievon Kühn. It is an attachment that shocks his family and friends. Their brilliant young Fritz, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard? How can this be? Their rationality of love, the transfiguration of the commonplace, the clarity of purpose that comes with knowing one's own fate - these are the themes of this beguiling novel, themes treated with a mix of wit, grace, and mischievous humor.
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Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1577 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Blue Flower Author: Penelope Fitzgerald Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 05-19-15 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: The Blue Flower is set in the age of Goethe, in the small towns and great universities of late 18th-century Germany. It tells the true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a passionate, impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the romantic poet Novalis. Fritz seeks his father's permission to wed his "heart's heart," his "spirit's guide" - a plain, simple child named Sophievon Kühn. It is an attachment that shocks his family and friends. Their brilliant young Fritz, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard? How can this be? Their rationality of love, the transfiguration of the commonplace, the clarity of purpose that comes with knowing one's own fate - these are the themes of this beguiling novel, themes treated with a mix of wit, grace, and mischievous humor.
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