Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma.Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.

Out of the Dust

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oregon

This book chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time of the Buddha--a tale that has inspired generations of readers. We are invited along Siddhartha's journey experiencing his highs, lows, loves, and disappointments along the way. Hesse begins by showing us the life of a privileged brahmin's son. Handsome, well-loved, and growing increasingly dissatisfied with the life expected of him, Siddhartha sets out on his journey, not realizing that he is fulfilling the prophesies proclaimed at his birth. Siddhartha blends in with the world, showing the reader the beauty and intricacies of the mind, nature, and his experiences on the path to enlightenment. Sherab Chodzin Kohn's flowing, poetic translation conveys the philosophical and spiritual nuances of Hesse's text, paying special attention to the qualities of meditative experience. Also included is an extensive introduction by Paul W. Morris that discusses the impact "Siddhartha" has had on American culture.

Siddhartha

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Names written on 1st page, lightly creased spine. 

The Nazis burned Hesse's books,  but you can read them!

Arizona

Rosshalde

A #paperback #literature #novel #classics #Hesse #steppenwolf 

Pennsylvania

A Novel

A critique of bourgeois society as perceived by a lonely and sensitive man through his partly beautiful, partly diseased fantasies.

Steppenwolf

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Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover ultimate spiritual truths

#fiction #juvenilefiction #paperback #hesse #phoenixrising

Maryland

Phoenix Rising

Light creasing to spine. The Nazis burnt this book, but you can read it!

If the War Goes On

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New York

#paperback #fiction #epicfantasy #fantasyfiction #classicspaperback #classicfantasy #fantasy #hesse

steppenwolf

#paperback #hesse #hermanhesse #utopias #utopianfiction #sciencefiction #scif #germanlit #germanliterature

The Glass Bead Game

Magister Ludi

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#paperback #siddhartha #hesse #hermanhesse

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Stories of Five Decades

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#hesse #german #comingofage #hermannhesse #boyhood #germanliterature

Massachusetts

Erzählung

Unterm Rad

#paperback #bundle #Hesse #existential #selfdiscovery #classic #literary #bildungsroman #Demian #Siddhartha

Iowa

Hermann Hesse's Rosshalde is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment that can only be found outside the confines of conventional society.

Johann Veraguth, a wealthy, successful artist, is estranged from his wife and stifled by the unhappy union. Veraguth's love for his young son and his fear of drifting rootlessly keep him bound within the walls of his opulent estate, Rosshalde. Yet, when he is shaken by an unexpected tragedy, Veraguth finally finds the courage to leave the desolate safety of Rosshalde and travels to India to discover himself anew.

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Siddhartha by Herman Hesse New Directions Vintage Paperback 47th printing 

#Hesse #School #Novel Hesse attacks education which fosters intellect & ambition rather than emotion, instinct and soul#paperback 

Colorado

Beneath the Wheel

#Hesse #Literature #Opera #Arts #ClassicalMusic #Fiction #Romantic

WithGertrude, Herman Hesse continues his lifelong exploration of the irreconcilable elements of human existence. In this fictional memoir, the renowned composer Kuhn recounts his tangled relationships with two artists--his friend Heinrich Muoth, a brooding, self-destructive opera singer, and the gentle, self-assured Gertrude Imthor. Kuhn is drawn to Gertrude upon their first meeting, but Gertrude falls in love with Heinrich, to whom she is introduced when Kuhn auditions them for the leads in his new opera. Hopelessly ill-matched, Gertrude and Heinrich have a disastrous marriage that leaves them both ruined. Yet this tragic affair also becomes the inspiration for Kuhn's opera, the most important success of his artistic life.

Gertrude

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#paperback #germanliterature #hermannhesse #hesse #demian #steppenwolf #deutsch #deutscheliteratur

A modernist work of profound wisdom that continues to enthral readers with its subtle blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf is revised by Walter Sorell from the original translation by Basil Creighton.

At first sight Harry Haller seems a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage encounters - accompanied by, among others, Mozart, Goethe and the bewitching Hermione - the misanthropic Haller discovers a higher truth, and the possibility of happiness. This blistering portrayal of a man who feels himself to be half-human and half-wolf was the bible of the 1960s counterculture, capturing the mood of a disaffected generation, and remains a haunting story of estrangement and redemption.

Herman Hesse (1877 - 1962) suffered from depression and weathered series of personal crises which led him to undergo psychoanalysis with J. B. Lang; a process which resulted in Demian (1919), a novel whose main character is torn between the orderliness of bourgeois existence and the turbulent and enticing world of sensual experience. This dichotomy is prominent in Hesse's subsequent novels, including Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), Narcissus and Goldmund (1930) and his magnum opus, The Glass Bead Game (1943). Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.

If you enjoyed Steppenwolf, you might like Hesse's Siddhartha, also available in Penguin Classics.

'A savage indictment of bourgeois society ... the gripping and fascinating story of disease in a man's soul'
The New York Times

Demian

Louisiana

In the spring of 1922, several months after completing Siddhartha, this author wrote a fairy tale that was also a love story, inspired by the woman who was to become his second wife. That story, "Pictor's Metamorphoses," is presented here along with a half century of his other short writings. Inspired by the Arabian Nights & the tales of the Brothers Grimm, these nineteen stories display the full range of his lifetime fascination with fantasy - as dream, fairy tale, folktale, satire, & allegory.

Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies

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California

(Magister Ludi) a Novel

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature

Set in the 23rd century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game).

Karen Hesse

Out of the Dust

Herman Hesse

Siddhartha

Herman Hesse

Rosshalde

Hermann Hesse; Basil Creighton (Translator)

Steppenwolf

Herman Hesse

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse; Hilda Rosner (Translator)

Siddhartha

Karen Hesse

Phoenix Rising

Herman Hesse

If the War Goes On

Hermann hesse

Steppenwolf

Herman Hesse

steppenwolf

Herman Hesse

Magister Ludi

Herman Hesse; Theodore Ziolkowski (Editor); Ralph Manheim (Translator); Denver Lindley (Translator); John J. Palencar (Illustrator)

Stories of Five Decades

Hermann Hesse

Unterm Rad

Hermann Hesse; Ralph Manheim (Translator)

Rosshalde

Hermann Hesse; Hilda Rosner (Translator)

Siddhartha

Herman Hesse

Beneath the Wheel

Hermann Hesse; Hilda Rosner (Translator)

Gertrude

Herman Hesse; David Horrocks (Translator)

Steppenwolf

Hermann hesse

Demian

Rika Lesser (Translator); Herman Hesse; Theodore J. Ziolkowski (Compiled by)

Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies

Hermann Hesse; Theodore Ziolkowski (Foreword by); Richard Winston (Translator)

The Glass Bead Game