Siddhartha

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 26/04/2016

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This allegorical novel, set in sixth-century India around the time of the Buddha, follows a young man on his search for enlightenment.


This edition includes:

-A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information

-A chronology of the author's life and work

-A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context

-An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader's own interpretations

-Detailed explanatory notes

-Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work

-Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction

-A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience

ISBN:
9781451686302
9781451686302
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
26-04-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse was born in Calw in 1877, a town in the north of the Black Forest. As a child he was constantly at odds with his religious upbringing and education.

His experiences of childhood, adolescence and the desire to break into the world as an artist would form the matter of his first three novels, Peter Camenzind, The Prodigy and Gertrude. Following an ever-present spiritual thirst, Hesse read widely on theosophy, Buddhism and the burgeoning field of psychoanalysis, even becoming a patient of Carl Jung.

This seeking is evident in some of his greatest novels, such as Demian, Steppenwolf, and Siddhartha. Little known outside of Germany at the time of his death in 1962 the arrival of the first English translation of Siddhartha in 1954 struck a chord with the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Soon after, Hesse became one of the most widely read and translated European authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.

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