Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse

The Journey to the East - Herman Hesse

It didn't seem right that there wasn't a review for Journey to the East. Even though I had never contributed online to anything and afeared even entering a chat room. Journey is a seminal volume of the counterculture movement, to be blurbish and show my age at the same time. Somewhere my dogeared paperback lies with its acid-etched ...

The Journey to the East - Herman Hesse

It didn't seem right that there wasn't a review for Journey to the East. Even though I had never contributed online to anything and afeared even entering a chat room. Journey is a seminal volume of the counterculture movement, to be blurbish and show my age at the same time. Somewhere my dogeared paperback lies with its acid-etched ...

Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse I love my books. I love reading them and I love seeing them on the shelves. I have a particular fondness for old books, ranging from the late Victorian hardbacks my Grandfather won at school in the 1890's to my 1960 James Bond paperbacks. I like to mix them up among the newer books to create an eclectic display, currently I have the Harry Potter series book ended by a 1967 Breakfast at Tiffany's and a first edition of Plato's Republic. The books I really love are the Penguin's from the 50's and 60's, the ones with the orange/white/orange covers. These have the advantage of usually being very good books in and of themselves as well as looking ...

Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse I love my books. I love reading them and I love seeing them on the shelves. I have a particular fondness for old books, ranging from the late Victorian hardbacks my Grandfather won at school in the 1890's to my 1960 James Bond paperbacks. I like to mix them up among the newer books to create an eclectic display, currently I have the Harry Potter series book ended by a 1967 Breakfast at Tiffany's and a first edition of Plato's Republic. The books I really love are the Penguin's from the 50's and 60's, the ones with the orange/white/orange covers. These have the advantage of usually being very good books in and of themselves as well as looking ...

Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf by Heman Hesse tells the story of Harry Haller, a strange and lonely ageing figure who believes he is half wolf. The story is told from 3 different perspectives; the reports of a relative of Haller's landlady, a strange book given to Haller and Haller's own diaries. Haller initially seems a tragic figure, torn between the conflicting needs of the body and the spirit. It is somewhat freudian in this conflict; comparable to that described by the philosopher between the id (pleasure seeking) and the ego (imposed morality). This is carried further in the theme of Haller's belief that he is half wolf, the wolf representing his animalistic, ...

Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf by Heman Hesse tells the story of Harry Haller, a strange and lonely ageing figure who believes he is half wolf. The story is told from 3 different perspectives; the reports of a relative of Haller's landlady, a strange book given to Haller and Haller's own diaries. Haller initially seems a tragic figure, torn between the conflicting needs of the body and the spirit. It is somewhat freudian in this conflict; comparable to that described by the philosopher between the id (pleasure seeking) and the ego (imposed morality). This is carried further in the theme of Haller's belief that he is half wolf, the wolf representing his animalistic, ...