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A child's heart.--Klein und Wagner.--Klingsor's last summer.
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 33,4 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374181667
A child's heart.--Klein und Wagner.--Klingsor's last summer.
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374270503
Twenty-three stories arranged in chronological order that are primarily concerned with the authors own secret.
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466835109
This is the first English-language edition of Klingsor's Last Summer, which was originally published in 1920, a year after Demian and two years before Siddhartha. The book has three parts: a story called A Child's Heart, followed by Klein and Wagner and Klingsor's Last Summer, Hesse's two longest and finest novellas. These novellas, along with Siddhartha (the three works were republished in 1931 under the title The Inward Way), are the first fruits of the period that began in the spring of 1919, when Hesse settled in the Ticino mountain village of Montagnola to start a new life without his wife and children. A Child's Heart, written in January 1919, in Basel, concerns the transmutation of a boy's innocence into knowledge of good and evil, and the painful guilt that accompanies this process. Both Klein and Wagner (written in May-June 1919, immediately after the arrival in Montagnola) and Klingsor's Last Summer (written shortly after) are set in a southern landscape that reflects Hesse's life that summer; both novellas have heroes who are more or less Hesse's age at the time; and in both the hero's death is preceded by a grand vision of unity in which the polarities of life are resoluved. Hesse exposes himself mercilessly in Klein and Wagner, a story of escape, wrenching loose, letting go. But the expressionist painter Klingsor is a more direct self-portrait of the Hesse of 1919.
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 1972
Category : German fiction
ISBN : 0374270880
Eight stories about the distillation of wisdom, concerning dream worlds, magical thinking, the subconscious and the soul.
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374500368
The hero recalls an unfruitful pilgrimage to the East during his youth and begins to realize its hidden spiritual meanings
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1466835524
One of the most astonishing aspects of Hesse's career is the clear-sightedness and consistency of his political views, his passionate espousal of pacifism and internationalism from the start of World War I to the end of his life. The earliest essay in this book was written in September 1914 and was followed by a stream of letters, essays, and pamphlets that reached its high point with Zarathustra's Return (published anonymously in 1919, the year that also saw the publication of Demian), in which Hesse exhorted German youth to shake off the false gods of nationalism and militarism that had led their country into the abyss. Such views earned him the labels "traitor" and "viper" in Germany, but after World War II he was moved to reiterate his beliefs in another series of essays and letters. Hesse arranged his anti-war writing for publication in one volume in 1946; an amplified edition appeared in 1949 and that text has been followed for this first English-language edition. In his foreword Hesse describes the heart of the philosophy expressed here: "In each one of these essays I strive to guide the reader not into the world theater with its political problemns but into his innermost being, before the judgment seat of his very personal conscience." This faith in salvation via the Inward Way, so familiar to readers of Hesse's fiction, is persuasively set forth as the answer to questions of war and peace.
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : London : J. Cape
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 1972-01
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780224008044
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1466835303
Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume—filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons—that is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse's novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own, a sense of longing for love and for home that is both deceptively simple and deeply moving.
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307420515
A collection of twenty-two fairy tales by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, most translated into English for the first time, show the influence of German Romanticism, psychoanalysis, and Eastern religion on his development as an author.
Author : Ellen Gilchrist
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1940941156
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Ellen Gilchrist's acclaimed 1981 debut collection of short stories, introduced readers to a remarkable Southern voice which has sustained its power and influence through her more than 20 subsequent books. Gilchrist has a distinctive ear for language, and a deep understanding of her flawed, sometimes tragic characters. These fourteen stories, divided into three sections -- There's a Garden of Eden, Things Like the Truth, and Perils of the Nile -- are about mostly young, upper-class Southern women who are bored with the Junior League and having babies, and chafe against the restrictions of their sheltered lives. Talented and bright, but living in the shadow of men -- their husbands and fathers -- they resort to outrageous actions in pursuit of freer lives and uncompromised love, despite the consequences. This collection first introduced readers to some of Gilchrist's most beloved characters, such as Rhoda Manning and Nora Jane Whittington. PRAISE: "It's difficult to review a first book as good as this one without resorting to every known superlative cliché...Gilchrist is the real thing." —Washington Post “A sustained display of delicately and rhythmically modulated prose and an unsentimental dissection of raw sentiment. Her stories are perceptive, her manner is both stylish and idiomatic – a rare and potent combination.” —Times Literary Supplement “Witty, concise and wonderfully varied.” —Literary Review “Gilchrist possess a distinctive voice, and blends a sense of poignancy with an often outrageously Gothic humor.” —New York Times Book Review “Her prose is quick-witted and urbane and as gossipy as Vanity Fair. Quite simply there is no Southern writer quite like her.” —Raleigh News & Observer