Penelope Fitzgerald is a blue flower. A leather-bound gift book

Novalis's intellectual formation and the harsh lives of New Zealand settlers

Penelope Fitzgerald is a blue flower. A leather-bound gift book.

Content:
 - Blue flower
 - Hiruharama

"The Blue Flower" is a historical novel that tells about the early life of the German romantic poet Novalis (Fritz von Hardenberg). The book tells the story of his intellectual development, transformation from a student to a philosopher and a strange, all-consuming love for an ordinary girl Sophie von Kuhn.
The book describes the story of the brilliant Fritz von Hardenberg, a graduate of the universities of Jena, Leipzig and Wittenberg, who studied dialectics and mathematics. Subsequently, he became known throughout the world as the great romantic poet and philosopher Novalis.
The passionate and idealistic Fritz needs his father's permission to announce his engagement to the "heart of his heart," his "true Philosophy," twelve-year-old Sophie von Kuhn.

"Hiruharama" is a work describing the harsh and realistic life of New Zealand settlers. The book immerses in the atmosphere of the pioneers' lives, focusing on their difficult daily lives, overcoming difficulties and the peculiar culture characteristic of the remote corners of New Zealand at that time.