Publication

1997 - Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

56,250 words, Guess

Page Count

225 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number96052911
  • LibraryThing19668
  • Goodreads11728

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6056.I86 B58 1997

Description

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.

Subjects

Places

People

Novalis (1772-1801)Sophie von Kühn (1782-1797)

Genres

  • Fiction.

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