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The Blue Flower

Penelope Fitzgerald

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1995
Pages
Pages 250

In eighteenth-century Germany a brilliant young poet falls absolutely, inexplicably in love with a plain, ordinary girl of twelve, and his baffled family watches the passion and her failing health decide his life.

Jacob Dietmahler was not such a fool that he could not see that they had arrived at his friend's home on the washday.
The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald

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