The Blue Flower

Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395859971
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancée Sophie, newly introduced by Candia McWilliam. The year is 1794 and Fritz, passionate, idealistic and brilliant, is seeking his fathers permission to announce his engagement to his hearts desire: twelve-year-old Sophie. His astounded family and friends are amused and disturbed by his betrothal. What can he be thinking?

Blue Flower

Author: Sonya Hartnett
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1760894451
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21

Book Description
Not all cats are tabby. Not all trees are tall. Not all clouds are white... and not all flowers are yellow. A beautiful and inspiring story, from award-winning writer Sonya Hartnett, about the discovery that being different can be something wonderful.

The Land of the Blue Flower

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1776534379
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29

Book Description
This allegorical tale of a saintly king who moves heaven and earth for the good of his people is another winner for young audiences from Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author of the beloved children's book The Secret Garden. Easy to understand and full of inspiring messages about doing the right thing, The Land of the Blue Flower is a wonderful and memorable read.

The Blue Flower of Forgetfulness

Author: Cyrus Samii
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979057335
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
The Blue Flower of Forgetfulness is an account of modernization in Iran, weaving together Persian fairy tales, epic poems and Hollywood movies, orientalist history and urban legends, World Bank loans, feverish growth and tranquil fields of roses--and the grip of a force that strangles dreams.

The Blue Flowers

Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811209458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Humorous dream fantasy in which a Duke keeps changing identity as he travels effortlessly through French history.

Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia

Author: Novalis
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791480704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Novalis is best known in history as the poet of early German Romanticism. However, this translation of Das Allgemeine Brouillon, or "Universal Notebook," finally introduces him to the English-speaking world as an extraordinarily gifted philosopher in his own right and shatters the myth of him as a mere daydreaming and irrational poet. Composed of more than 1,100 notebook entries, this is easily Novalis's largest theoretical work and certainly one of the most remarkable and audacious undertakings of the "Golden Age" of German philosophy. In it, Novalis reflects on numerous aspects of human culture, including philosophy, poetry, the natural sciences, the fine arts, mathematics, mineralogy, history, and religion, and brings them all together into what he calls a "Romantic Encyclopaedia" or "Scientific Bible." Novalis's Romantic Encyclopaedia fully embodies the author's own personal brand of philosophy, "Magical Idealism." With meditations on mankind and nature, the possible future development of our faculties of reason, imagination, and the senses, and the unification of the different sciences, these notes contain a veritable treasure trove of richly poetic and philosophic thoughts.

The Bookshop

Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher: HarperCollins publishers
ISBN: 9780008263027
Category : Booksellers and bookseeking
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.

The Last Jews of Rădăuți

Author: Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
A portrait--in text and photographs--of the vanishing culture of the Radauti Jews, survivors of the Holocaust who returned to their Romanian homeland, and their lives, tragic history, and society.

The Flower Alphabet Book

Author: Jerry Pallotta
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 088106453X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
Roses are red, Violets are blue... And they're only two of the flowers in this book of bright colors and delightful information. Young readers will be fascinated to find out what flower can be used to make a doll, which flower flavors tea, and which flower farmers feed to chickens. Author Jerry Pallotta and illustrator Leslie Evans have collaborated to produce a stunning bouquet of words and pictures about the world of flowers–one of nature's most beautiful gifts.

Henry of Ofterdingen

Author: Novalis Novalis
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3749437351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135

Book Description
The patents had already retired to rest; the old clock ticked monotonously from the wall; the windows rattled with the whistling wind, and the chamber was dimly lighted by the flickering glimmer of the moon. The young man lay restless on his bed, thinking of the stranger and his tales. "It is not the treasures," said he to himself, "that have awakened in me such unutterable longings. Far from me is all avarice; but I long to behold the blue flower. It is constantly in my mind, and I can think and compose of nothing else. I have never been in such a mood. It seems as if I had hitherto been dreaming, or slumbering into another world; for in the world, in which hitherto I have lived, who would trouble himself about a flower?--I never have heard of such a strange passion for a flower here. I wonder, too, whence the stranger comes? None of our people have ever seen his like; still I know not why I should be so fascinated by his conversation. Others have listened to it, but none are moved by it as I am. Would that I could explain my feelings in words! I am often full of rapture, and it is only when the blue flower is out of my mind, that this deep, heart-felt longing overwhelms me.