Books by Hermann Hesse

Rosshalde (2003)
A successful artist, Johann Veraguth finds himself torn between his responsibility toward his family...

Steppenwolf (2002)
A critique of bourgeois society as perceived by a lonely and sensitive man through his partly beauti...

Siddhartha (2007)
Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse is a deceptively simple, intense, and lyrical allegorical tale of...

Peter Camenzind (2003)
Originally published in Germany in 1904, this novel tells of the disillusionment of a young writer, ...

My Belief (1974)
The German writer reflects on human morality, the nature and value of literature, and his personal s...

Narcissus and Goldmund (2003)
Leaving behind the medieval monastary of Mariabronn at the urgings of his instructor, Narcissus, Gol...

The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse (1995)
A collection of twenty-two fairy tales by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, most translated into Eng...

Beneath the Wheel (1988)
Hans Giebenrath lives in a sleepy Black Forest village not in the habit of producing prodigies. When...

The Glass Bead Game (1943)
In an unspecified future symbolic world of the twenty-third century, Joseph Knecht achieves and reje...

Demian (1999)
A friend's mother, war, and newly discoverd self-respect draw a young man toward his psychological a...