Downloadable Guide for Group Discussion and Classroom use “Delights, amuses, disturbs and provokes reflection, in equal measure. —Allan Massie, Scotsman Cambridge University in 1912 is on the threshold of world-changing discoveries in physics. Young, rational Fred Fairly, a country clergyman’s only son, is a junior fellow at the university’s smallest college, St. Angelicus, closed [...]
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The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
Downloadable Guide for Group Discussion and Classroom use “A masterpiece. How does she do it?” — A. S. Byatt Friedrich Leopold, Baron von Hardenberg (1772—1801), was born in Oberwiederstadt, Germany, studied law, philosophy, and history, worked as a government auditor at Weissenfels, and—under the pseudonym Novalis became known as the “prophet of Romanticism.” Best [...]
