Results for "Hesse, Hermann"

The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers—a perennial favorite for graduation gifts.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThough set in a place and time far rem... Read More about Siddhartha: A Novel

A bold translation of Nobel Prize-winner Herman Hesse's most inspirational and beloved work, which was nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Hesse's famous and influential novel, Siddartha, is perhaps the most important... Read More about Siddhartha: An Indian Tale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

This volume gathers the most alluring stories, recollections, contemplations and poems on butterflies by Herman Hesse.  "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 soli... Read More about Butterflies: Reflections, Tales, and Verse

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 liberationHarry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to re... Read More about Steppenwolf: A Novel

This revolutionary translation is the only way to experience the novel as Hesse envisioned it nearly one hundred years ago. The quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller—better known as the Steppenwolf. After a life spent in self-imposed isolation, Harry meets the mysterious H... Read More about The Steppenwolf

*Winner of the American Translators Association Frederick Ungar Award* An elegant collection of Hermann Hesse’s essays, poems, and passages on the subject of trees and nature, accompanied by thirty-one of his watercolor illustrations. Hermann Hesse understood trees to be symbols of transcendence an... Read More about Trees: An Anthology of Writings and Paintings