Siddhartha by Hesse, Hermann

Siddhartha (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780143124337)

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Format: Hardcover
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Siddhartha by Hesse, Hermann

Siddhartha

$89.50
Siddhartha by Hesse, Hermann

Siddhartha

$89.50
Format: Hardcover
Description
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H is for Hesse. A young Brahmin named Siddhartha searches for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism, from the illusory joys of sensual love with a beautiful courtesan, and of wealth and fame, to the painful struggles with his son and the ultimate wisdom of renunciation. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, written with a deep and moving empathy for humanity, Herman Hesse's strangely simple Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory the troubled twentieth century ever produced.

Author: Hermann Hesse
ISBN-10: 0143124331
ISBN-13: 9780143124337
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Language: English
Published: 05/07/2013
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.1
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 8672 / Siddhartha (English)


Review Citation(s):
People Weekly 12/23/2013 pg. 57
By Hermann Hesse
By Hermann Hesse
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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) spent World War I in Switzerland. After the war and a psychological crisis, he removed himself to the small town of Montagnola, where he created his best-known works. He received many important honors, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.

Joachim Neugroschel (1938-2011) translated numerous books from French, German, Italian, Russian, and Yiddish. The winner of three PEN translation awards and the French-American Foundation translation prize, he translated Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, E. T. A. Hoffman and Alexadre Dumas's Nutcracker and Mouse King, and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs for Penguin Classics. He also compiled several anthologies including Great Tales of Jewish Fantasy and the Occult, A Dybbuk and Other Tales of the Supernatural, and The Golem: A New Translation of the Classic Play and Selected Short Stories.

Jessica Hische is a letterer, illustrator, typographer, and web designer. She currently serves on the Type Directors Club board of directors, has been named a Forbes Magazine "30 under 30" in art and design as well as an ADC Young Gun and one of Print Magazine's "New Visual Artists". She has designed for Wes Anderson, McSweeney's, Tiffany & Co, Penguin Books and many others. She resides primarily in San Francisco, occasionally in Brooklyn.

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