Steppenwolf (Twentieth Century Classics) - Softcover

Hermann Hesse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140181024 ISBN 13: 9780140181029

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1990

Synopsis

General FictionLarge Print EditionSteppenwolf is the profoundly memorable and affecting story of Harry Heller which embodies one of Hesses most personally felt themes the wrenching conflict between the needs of the flesh and of the spirit. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, Hermann Hesse commands a prominent place in the ranks of modern literatures masters.

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About the Author:

Herman Hesse was born in southern Germany in 1877. Hesse concentrated on writing poetry as a young man, but his first successful book was a novel, Peter Camenzind (1904). During the war, Hesse was actively involved in relief efforts. Depression, criticism for his pacifist views, and a series of personal crises led Hesse to undergo psychoanalysis with J. B. Lang. Out of these years came Demian (1919), a novel whose main character is torn between the orderliness of bourgeois existence and the turbulent and enticing world of sensual experience. This dichotomy is prominent in Hesse's subsequent novels, including Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), and Narcissus and Goldmund (1930). Hesse worked on his magnum opus, The Glass Bead Game (1943), for twelve years. This novel was specifically cited when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. Hesse died at his home in Switzerland in 1962.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140181024
• ISBN 13: 9780140181029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256