Hermann Hesse

In Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheel, Hans Giebernath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a path of serious scholarship. Hans dutifully...

Author: Hermann HesseISBN-10: 9358484349ISBN-13: 9789358484342Publisher: Happy Hour BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/12/2023Pages: 146Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Hermann Hesse's "Beneath the Wheel" is a thought-provoking and moving coming-of-age tale about academic pressures and an attempt for uniqueness in a conformist society. The novel is set in a strict early twentieth-century German boarding school and follows the lives of Hans Giebenrath, a...

"I have always had a connection with butterflies and other fleeting and ephemeral beauties, while I have never succeeded in maintaining permanent, committed and so-called solid relationships," writes Hermann Hesse in a letter from 1926. This preference, occasionally resembling an elective affinity, for "flowers...

"An Existentialist intensity and a depth of understanding rare in contemporary fiction." A Classic Novel About the Pursuit of Personal Fulfillment A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man's quest for self-awarenessAuthor: Hermann HesseISBN-10: 1607960184ISBN-13: 9781607960188Publisher: www.bnpublishing.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2008Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.90h...

A troubled young man's quest for self-awareness.Author: Hermann HesseISBN-10: 1607962764ISBN-13: 9781607962762Publisher: www.bnpublishing.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/16/2010Pages: 116Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.70d

Demian is a psychological masterpiece of modern literature. This novel explores the duality of human nature and the alienation of man's soul. A powerful coming of age story.Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste...

First published in 1919, it is a brilliant journey of the psyche written by one of Germany's most influential writers and thinkers-Herman Hesse. A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing. Emil Sinclair is...

First published in 1919, it is a brilliant journey of the psyche written by one of Germany's most influential writers and thinkers-Herman Hesse. A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing. Emil Sinclair is...

Demian is a psychological masterpiece of modern literature. This novel explores the duality of human nature and the alienation of man's soul. A powerful coming of age story.Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste...

Originally published in 1919 under the pseudonym of the narrator of the story, Herman Hesse's "Demian" is the coming of age story of its principal character "Emil Sinclair." The struggle of Emil is one of self-awareness. A principal theme that courses through the novel...

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?Generations of readers have recognized the impassioned cry that introduces the young narrator of Demian, and embraced this tale of a...

"Hesse is a writer whose peculiar vision is worth inspecting. His world is shadowy and close to areas of the heart that will probably never see light. But his vision is a rare one, as commendable for its humane solicitude as for its strangeness...

First published in 1919 under the pseudonym Emil Sinclair, 'Demian' is an assessment of the attainment of self-awareness by a troubled adolescent. The novel is a popular work of Hermann Hesse, one of Germany's most influential writers and thinkers, and poet who was awarded...

First published in 1919, it is a brilliant journey of the psyche written by one of Germany's most influential writers and thinkers-Herman Hesse. A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing. Emil Sinclair is...

The Story of Emil Sinclair's Childhood is a historical novel by Hermann Hesse. It was published in 1919, and the introduction was added in 1960. The first edition of Demian was published under the pen name of Emil Sinclair, the name of the storyteller....

"Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth" is a novel by Hermann Hesse, published in 1919. It tells the story of a young man named Emil Sinclair and his coming-of-age journey in Germany at the turn of the 20th century. The novel explores themes...

First published in 1919, it is a brilliant journey of the psyche written by one of Germany's most influential writers and thinkers-Herman Hesse. A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing. Emil Sinclair is...

"Demian" is a novel written by the German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse. Originally published in 1919, "Demian" is a coming-of-age novel that explores themes of individualism, self-discovery, and spiritual awakening. The story is narrated by Emil Sinclair, a young boy growing up in Germany during...

"Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth" is a novel by Hermann Hesse, published in 1919. It tells the story of a young man named Emil Sinclair and his coming-of-age journey in Germany at the turn of the 20th century. The novel explores themes...

A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man's quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its 1919 publication. A landmark in the history of twentieth-century literature, it reflects Hermann Hesse's preoccupation with the duality of human nature...

Originally published in 1919 under the pseudonym of the narrator of the story, Herman Hesse's "Demian" is the coming of age story of its principal character "Emil Sinclair." The struggle of Emil is one of self-awareness. A principal theme that courses throughout the novel...

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?Generations of readers have recognized the impassioned cry that introduces the young narrator of Demian, and embraced this tale of a...

2021 Hardcover Reprint of 1948 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The main character of this classic novel, Emil Sinclair, is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a...

2011 Reprint of 1948 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The main character of this classic novel, Emil Sinclair, is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play...

Hermann Hesse was born in 1877 at Calw, Germany, into a scholarly and deeply religious family. Hesse's "tyrannical temperament, and passionate turbulence" led to conflict with his strait-laced parents and his adolescence was unhappy - brief stints at a variety of different schools culminating...

A powerful new translation of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's masterpiece of youthful rebellion--with a foreword and cover art by James Franco A Penguin Classic A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in...

"Although life is an affair of light and shadows, we never accept it as such." Hermann Hesse Hermann Hesse is one of the most widely read German-language authors, his books are world literature classics. Hesse's great literary success is based on such works as...

"If what this subtle clever old bard was singing in his muted voice was true, then all my songs were only nonsense and silly child's play." When Hesse turned thirteen he wanted to be a poet. In the words of John Keating, the character...

With Gertrude, Herman Hesse continues his lifelong exploration of the irreconcilable elements of human existence. In this fictional memoir, the renowned composer Kuhn recounts his tangled relationships with two artists--his friend Heinrich Muoth, a brooding, self-destructive opera singer, and the gentle, self-assured Gertrude Imthor....

In this novel about music, love, and creativity, Hermann Hesse weaves a tale of loss and redemption. Kuhn, the sensitive narrator, disabled in an accident as a young man, has become a renowned composer. He is drawn to a beautiful, mysterious singer named Gertrude...

With Gertrude, Herman Hesse continues his lifelong exploration of the irreconcilable elements of human existence. In this fictional memoir, the renowned composer Kuhn recounts his tangled relationships with two artists--his friend Heinrich Muoth, a brooding, self-destructive opera singer, and the gentle, self-assured Gertrude Imthor....

One of Herman Hesse's earliest novels, In the Old Sun (In der Alten Sonne) was completed in 1908. The book, out of print in English for a hundred years, was originally published before the novels that were to make Hesse famous in the decades...

"The most ruthless of Hesse's many self-exposures." Joseph Mileck Klein and Wagner tells the story of Friedrich Klein, a middle-aged clerk who has embezzled from his employer and escaped to Italy. However, Klein is not a common criminal, but rather a self-alienated, tormented bourgeois...

Klingsor's Last Summer tells the story of a famous painter named Klingsor as he experiences a final burst of creativity in his last summer of life. He grabs the cup of life with both hands and drinks until he simply cannot take any more....

Knulp is the eternal drifter, a true drop-out of an earlier time. Originally published in Germany in 1915, Knulp was Hermann Hesse's most popular book in the years before he published Demian. During the 1950's, the book was influential on Jack Kerouac author of...

This is Herman Hesse's last and greatest work, which won for him the Nobel Prize for LIterature. Described as "sublime" by Thomas Mann, admired by Andre Gide and T. S. Eliot, it is considered one of the important novels of the twentieth century. It...

Hesse's novel of two medieval men, one quietly content with his religion and monastic life, the other in fervent search of more worldly salvation. This conflict between flesh and spirit, between emotional and contemplative man, was a life study for Hesse. It is a...

Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual,...

Peter Camenzind, a young man from a Swiss mountain village, leaves his home and eagerly takes to the road in search of new experience. Traveling through Italy and France, Camenzind is increasingly disillusioned by the suffering he discovers around him; after failed romances and...

In the spring of 1922, several months after completing Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse wrote a fairy tale that was also a love story, inspired by the woman who was to become his second wife. That story, Pictor's Metamorphoses, is the centerpiece of this anthology of...

Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume--filled...

Hermann Hesse's Rosshalde is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment that can only be found outside the confines of conventional society. Johann Veraguth, a wealthy, successful artist, is estranged from his...

Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of selfdiscovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel (1922), was written in German, in a simple, lyrical style. It was published...

The title of this novel is a combination of two Sanskrit words, "siddha," which is defined as "achieved," and "artha" which is defined as "meaning" or "wealth." The word serves as the name for the principal character, a man on a spiritual journey of...

Siddhartha is a beautiful, lyrical story of spiritual enlightenment and self realization. The journey of an Indian man during the time of Buddha, shows the journey to materialism and back to nature. Siddhartha is a lively, passionate and insightful must read.Author: Hermann HesseISBN-10: 146999769XISBN-13:...

Contents FIRST PART THE SON OF THE BRAHMAN WITH THE SAMANAS GOTAMA AWAKENING SECOND PART KAMALA WITH THE CHILDLIKE PEOPLE SANSARA BY THE RIVER THE FERRYMAN THE SON OM GOVINDAAuthor: Hermann HesseISBN-10: 148116208XISBN-13: 9781481162081Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/03/2012Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.02h...

The classic novel of ancient India. A young man searches for enlightenment.Author: Hermann HesseISBN-10: 1934941018ISBN-13: 9781934941010Publisher: Red and Black PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2008Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.12h x 6.01w x 0.29dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 7.1Point Value: 6Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 8672 / Siddhartha (English)

Quality paperback edition of Hermann Hesse's classic novel of pilgrimage and spiritual awakening, Siddhartha. *** Also available: Digital edition for kindle (ASIN B00378L6VY)Author: Hermann HesseISBN-10: 1936594153ISBN-13: 9781936594153Publisher: Tribeca BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2010Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.26dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 7.1Point Value: 6Interest...

Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian man named Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel (1922), was written in German, in a simple, powerful, and lyrical style. It was...