The Blue FlowerFrom the Booker Prize winning author of Offshore and Innocence comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiance Sophie. Set in Germany at the very end of the eighteenth century, The Blue Flower is the story of the brilliant Fritz von Hardenberg, a graduate of the Universities of Jena, Leipzig and Wittenberg, learned in Dialectics and Mathematics, who later became the great romantic poet and philosopher Novalis. The passionate and