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    Hermann Hesse

    Hermann Hesse was born in 1877 in Calw, Germany. He was the son and grandson of Protestant missionaries and was educated in religious schools until the age of thirteen, when he dropped out of school. At age eighteen he moved to Basel, Switzerland, to work as a bookseller and lived in Switzerland for most of his life. His early novels included Peter Camenzind (1904), Beneath the Wheel (1906), Gertrud (1910), and Rosshalde (1914). During this period Hesse married and had three sons. During World War I Hesse worked to supply German prisoners of war with reading materials and expressed his pacifist leanings in anti-war tracts and novels. Hesse's lifelong battles with depression drew him to study Freud during this period and, later, to undergo analysis with Jung. His first major literary success was the novel Demian (1919). When Hesse's first marriage ended, he moved to Montagnola, Switzerland, where he created his best-known works: Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), Narcissus and Goldmund (1930), Journey to the East (1932), and The Glass Bead Game (1943). Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. He died in 1962 at the age of eighty-five.
    Steppenwolf
    Steppenwolf
    Hermann Hesse
    9780143137825
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 04, 2025
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Demian
    Demian
    The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
    Hermann Hesse
    9780143106784
    $16.00 US
    Paperback
    Jul 30, 2013
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Siddhartha
    Siddhartha
    Hermann Hesse
    9780812974782
    $16.00 US
    Paperback
    Dec 04, 2007
    Modern Library
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Siddhartha
    Siddhartha
    An Indian Tale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Hermann Hesse
    9780142437186
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Dec 31, 2002
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Siddhartha
    Siddhartha
    A Novel
    Hermann Hesse
    9780553208849
    $8.99 US
    Mass Market Paperback
    Dec 01, 1981
    Bantam
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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    Steppenwolf
    Steppenwolf
    Hermann Hesse
    9780143137825
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 04, 2025
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Demian
    Demian
    The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
    Hermann Hesse
    9780143106784
    $16.00 US
    Paperback
    Jul 30, 2013
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Siddhartha
    Siddhartha
    Hermann Hesse
    9780812974782
    $16.00 US
    Paperback
    Dec 04, 2007
    Modern Library
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Siddhartha
    Siddhartha
    An Indian Tale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Hermann Hesse
    9780142437186
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Dec 31, 2002
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Siddhartha
    Siddhartha
    A Novel
    Hermann Hesse
    9780553208849
    $8.99 US
    Mass Market Paperback
    Dec 01, 1981
    Bantam
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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