{"product_id":"penguin-classics-steppenwolf-paperback","title":"Penguin Classics - Steppenwolf (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"142\" data-end=\"427\"\u003eA modernist work of profound wisdom that continues to enthrall readers with its subtle blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, the \u003cem data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"306\"\u003ePenguin Modern Classics\u003c\/em\u003e edition of Hermann Hesse's \u003cem data-start=\"334\" data-end=\"347\"\u003eSteppenwolf\u003c\/em\u003e is revised by Walter Sorell from the original translation by Basil Creighton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"429\" data-end=\"839\"\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"841\" data-end=\"1078\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1080\" data-end=\"1420\"\u003eHermann Hesse (1877–1962) suffered from depression and weathered a series of personal crises which led him to undergo psychoanalysis with J. B. Lang, a process which resulted in \u003cem data-start=\"1258\" data-end=\"1266\"\u003eDemian\u003c\/em\u003e (1919), a novel whose main character is torn between the orderliness of bourgeois existence and the turbulent and enticing world of sensual experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1422\" data-end=\"1676\"\u003eThis dichotomy is prominent in Hesse's subsequent novels, including \u003cem data-start=\"1490\" data-end=\"1502\"\u003eSiddhartha\u003c\/em\u003e (1922), \u003cem data-start=\"1511\" data-end=\"1524\"\u003eSteppenwolf\u003c\/em\u003e (1927), \u003cem data-start=\"1533\" data-end=\"1557\"\u003eNarcissus and Goldmund\u003c\/em\u003e (1930), and his magnum opus, \u003cem data-start=\"1587\" data-end=\"1608\"\u003eThe Glass Bead Game\u003c\/em\u003e (1943). Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1678\" data-end=\"1784\"\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003cem data-start=\"1693\" data-end=\"1706\"\u003eSteppenwolf\u003c\/em\u003e, you might like Hesse's \u003cem data-start=\"1731\" data-end=\"1743\"\u003eSiddhartha\u003c\/em\u003e, also available in \u003cem data-start=\"1763\" data-end=\"1781\"\u003ePenguin Classics\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote data-start=\"1786\" data-end=\"1926\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1788\" data-end=\"1926\"\u003e“A savage indictment of bourgeois society ... the gripping and fascinating story of disease in a man's soul.”\u003cbr data-start=\"1897\" data-end=\"1900\"\u003e\n— \u003cem data-start=\"1904\" data-end=\"1924\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003chr data-start=\"1928\" data-end=\"1931\"\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1933\" data-end=\"1955\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1933\" data-end=\"1953\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1957\" data-end=\"2207\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1957\" data-end=\"1974\"\u003eHERMANN HESSE\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Calw, Germany, in 1877. As a child, he lived for a time in Basel. He spent a short period studying at a seminary in Germany but soon left to work as a bookseller in Switzerland. From 1904 he devoted himself to writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"2209\" data-end=\"2551\"\u003eAfter a first volume of verse (1899), Hesse established his reputation with a series of lyrical romantic novels — \u003cem data-start=\"2323\" data-end=\"2340\"\u003ePeter Camenzind\u003c\/em\u003e (1904), \u003cem data-start=\"2349\" data-end=\"2381\"\u003eUnterm Rad (The Prodigy, 1906)\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"2383\" data-end=\"2392\"\u003eGertrud\u003c\/em\u003e (1910), and the short story \u003cem data-start=\"2421\" data-end=\"2428\"\u003eKnulp\u003c\/em\u003e (1915). After a visit to India in 1911, he moved to Switzerland and worked for the Red Cross during the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"2553\" data-end=\"3019\"\u003eHe was denounced in Germany and settled permanently in Switzerland, where he established himself as one of the greatest literary figures in the German-speaking world. His humanity and searching philosophy developed further in such novels as \u003cem data-start=\"2794\" data-end=\"2806\"\u003eSiddhartha\u003c\/em\u003e (1922), \u003cem data-start=\"2815\" data-end=\"2832\"\u003eDer Steppenwolf\u003c\/em\u003e (1927), \u003cem data-start=\"2841\" data-end=\"2863\"\u003eNarziss and Goldmund\u003c\/em\u003e (1930), and \u003cem data-start=\"2876\" data-end=\"2925\"\u003eDas Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game, 1943)\u003c\/em\u003e, while his poems and critical writings won him a leading place among contemporary thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"3021\" data-end=\"3147\"\u003eHesse won many literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in 1946. 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