Hermann Hesse
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.
4) Siddhartha
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young man, blessed with loving parents and a safe home in a world where want and neglect abound, leaves this haven in search of himself. He joins the Samanas, a band of wandering ascetics without possessions or earthly ties. His quest unfulfilled, he descends into a life of unbounded luxury and indulgence. Where is truth? Where will his soul find true ease? In denial? In decadence? Or in some truth far greater than himself, so simple, so close to...
Author
Publisher
Perennial Classics
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st Perennial Library ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 158 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Demian, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the dramatic story of a young man's awakening to selfhood. Writing in the existential tradition of Nietzsche.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2003], c1953
Edition
1st Picador ed.
Physical Desc
187 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A gifted German boy hounded by years of pressure and guilt from his schoolmasters and pastor receives a long-overdue taste of freedom, loses interest in his studies, and finds his life spiraling out of control, faced with an "average" future.
9) Siddharta
Author
Publisher
Editores Mexicanos Unidos
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
7a ed., Edicion completa.
Physical Desc
169 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Series
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (174 pages)
Language
English
Description
"This collection of new and classic Christmas literature includes stories by Herman Hesse, Joseph Roth, The Brothers Grimm, and many others. This collection brings together traditional and contemporary holiday stories from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. You'll find classic works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler, as well as more recent tales by writers like Heinrich Böll, Peter...