Steppenwolf
$22.03
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
13 May 2011
Summary
The novel that became the hip bible of Sixties counterculture
“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 into an enchanted, Faust-like underworld. Through a series of shadowy encounters, romantic, freakish and savage by tu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241951521 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241951526 |
| Author: | Hermann Hesse, Walter Sorell, Basil Creighton |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 145g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 113mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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The gripping and fascinating story of disease in a man’s soul, and a savage indictment of bourgeois society
The gripping and fascinating story of disease in a man’s soul, and a savage indictment of bourgeois society * New York Times *Existential masterpiece * The Times *A profoundly memorable and affecting novel * New York Times *
About The Author
Hermann Hesse
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. His later novels - Siddartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), Narziss und Goldmund (1930) and Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game, 1943) - poems and critical essays established him as one of the greatest literary figures of the German-speaking world. He won many literary awards including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. Hermann Hesse died in 1962.
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