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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.2. Seller Inventory # G0140037551I4N00
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Book Description Later printing. 157pp. The Prodigy, originally dating from 1905, is Hermann Hesses's bitter indictment of conventional education. It is the story of Hans Giebenrath, the brilliant young son of provincial bourgeouis in southern Germany who becomes the first boy from his town to pass into a prestigious Protestant theological college. His spirit, however, is systematically broken by his parents and teachers; over anxious about his success, they forget to consider his health and happiness. Subsiding into a fatal apathy, he is taken home for medical reasons. Here he falls in love, becomes an engineer's apprentice, learns to drink alcohol and eventually dies by drowning. Out of his attitude to the treatment that he perceived was common within the German schooling system at the turn of the century, Hesse developed his own deeply personal views on the value of Eastern education in developing the self. T8288. Paperback. Shelfwear, and water damage. Very good. Seller Inventory # 94566
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Book Description Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Please email us if you would like further information or if you would like us to send you a picture of the book. The book i am offering may not have the same cover as the one pictured. they are stock photos from the site. Thanks for looking! Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 027174
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; Fifth Printing. Minor cover creases, paper starting to tone. ; Fifth printing of Penguin mass market edition. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover design by David Pocknell. ; 160 pages; Hermann Hesse's indictment of conventional education. A brilliantly gifted young boy's spirit is systematically broken by his parents and teachers who, over anxious about his success, fail to consider his health and hapiness. Mass Market PB. Seller Inventory # 23592