Steppenwolf
Author(s): Hermann Hesse
A poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf.
General Information
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- : pengui
- : pengui
- : 0.144
- : 25 February 1999
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Hermann Hesse
- : Paperback
- : 833.912
- : 256
More About The Product
Hermann Hesse was born in Calw, Germany in 1877. After a short period at a seminary he moved to Switzerland to work as a bookseller. From 1904 he devoted himself to writing, establishing his reputation with a series of romantic novels. During the First World War he worked for the Red Cross and afterwards, consolidated his position as a leading contemporary thinker. Hesse won many literary awards including the Nobel Prize in 1946. He died in 1962 at the age of eighty-five.