Steppenwolf (Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Creighton, Basil; Hesse, Hermann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140181024 ISBN 13: 9780140181029

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1990

Synopsis

DIFFERENT OFFER (this item listed here is DIFFERENT from the title and/or picture above. Please see description & pictures by BookGems before placing an order): Edition Penguin Books (in association with Secker & Warburg Ltd.), Reprint, 1988. Translated from German by Basil Creighton and revised by Walter Sorrell. ISBN: 0-14-00-2332-1. 253 pages. Just light tanning to paper edges. Other than that, the new and unread book remains in very good condition throughout. Text all clean, neat and tight. Prompt dispatch from UK.

About this title

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.

About this edition

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