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Siddhartha - The Dhammapada by Hermann Hesse; Hilda Rosner (Translator); Buddhaghosa Buddhaghosa; Irving Babbitt (Translator)
Category: Classics
Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, Siddhartha is the story of a soul's long quest for the answer to the enigma of man's role on earth. As a youth, the young Indian Siddhartha meets the Buddha but isn't content with the disciple's role. He must work out his own destiny--a tortur ...Show more
SiddharthaAn Indian Tale by Hermann Hesse
Category: Classics
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated lett ...Show more
Singapore Dream & Other Adventures by Hermann Hesse; Sherab Chodzin Kohn (Translator)
Category: Fiction
Hermann Hesse's voyage to the East Indies, recorded in journal entries and other writings translated into English for the first time, describes the experiences that influenced his greatest works. "I knew but few of the trees and animals that I saw around me by name, I was unable to read the Chinese ins ...Show more
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse; Basil Creighton (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Picador Modern Classics Ser.
With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesse's best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literature's most poetic evocations of the soul's journey to liberation Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reco ...Show more
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Category: Fiction
A poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf.
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Category: Classic | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
'The unhappiness that I need and long for . . . is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for. 'Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw hi ...Show more
Steppenwolf by Hesse Hermann
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'The unhappiness that I need and long for ...is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.' Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw him ...Show more
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This title is presented with a new translation by David Horrocks. At first sight Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage ...Show more
Steppenwolf: Popular Penguins by Hesse Hermann
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'The unhappiness that I need and long for . . . is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.' Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw hi ...Show more
Strange News from Another Star by Hermann Hesse
Category: Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics S.
This collection of short stories includes such subjects as miracles, poetic artistry and personal quirks with a pervading mystical quality.
The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse
Category: Classics
Herman Hesse's legendary allegorical novel "The Journey to the East" is purportedly the history of a journey undertaken by a secretive 'League'. Written by one H.H., the group's storyteller and choirmaster, an old and weak man who has never recovered from the failure of the journey and the disintegratio ...Show more
The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse
Category: Fiction
In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members include Paul Klee, Mozart, and Albertus Magnus. The participants traverse both space and time, encounterin ...Show more