Hermann Hesse

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1922
  • Latest Book:
    February 2015
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Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Siddhartha

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    The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers -- a perennial favorite for graduation gifts.

    Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s T...

  • Steppenwolf

    This revolutionary translation is the only way to experience the novel as Hesse envisioned it nearly one hundred years ago.The quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller -- better known as the Steppenwolf. After a life spent in ...

  • Gertrude

    With Gertrude, 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 b...

  • Narcissus and Goldmund

    Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his student...

  • Knulp

    First published in 1915, Knulp was Hesse's most popular book in the years before Demian. This is the first edition in English.Knulp is an amiable vagabond who wanders from town to town, staying with friends who feed and shelter him. Consistently refu...

  • Strange News from Another Star

    In 1919, the same year Demian was published, seven of these stories appeared as a book entitled Märchen--literally, Fairy Tales. For this first edition in English, we have followed the arrangement Hesse made for the final collected edition of his wo...

  • Wandering

  • Rosshalde

    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...

  • Strange News from Another Star and Other Tales



  • Stories of Five Decades

    This selection of twenty-three stories (twenty available in English for the first time) offers a spectrum of Hesse's writing from 1899 to 1948 that could be matched only by an edition of his poetry, since in no other form--novel, essay, autobiographi...

  • Crisis Pages from a Diary

  • Tales of Student Life

  • Journey to the East

    A great writer . . . complex, subtle, allusive. - New York Times Book Review

    In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse's Journey to the East tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an exped...

  • Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies

    In the spring of 1922, several months after completing "Siddhartha," Hermann Hesse 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 the centerpiece of t...

  • Klingsor's Last Summer

    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 ...

  • Beneath the Wheel

    Hans Giebernath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a path of serious scholarship. Hans dutifully follows ...

  • Peter Camenzind

    Peter Camenzind, a young man from a Swiss mountain village, leaves his home and eagerly takes to the road in search of new experience. Traveling through Italy and France, Camenzind is increasingly disillusioned by the suffering he discovers around hi...

  • The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse

    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....

  • Hermann Hesse

    Diese Datei enthält sowohl Knulp (Drei Geschichten aus dem Leben Knulps) als auch Siddhartha (Eine Indische Diktatur) im Original Deutsch. Laut Wikipedia: "Hermann Hesse (2. Juli 1877 - 9. August 1962) war ein in Deutschland geborener Schweizer Dich...



  • The Glass Bead Game

    The Glass Bead Game, for which Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, is the author's last and crowning achievement, the most imaginative and prophetic of all his novels. Setting the story in the distant postapocalyptic future, Hesse tells...

  • Siddhartha & the Dhammapada:

    Hermann Hesse’s classic novel in a new edition containing original writings attributed to the Buddha, The Dhammapada.

    Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, Siddhartha is the story of a soul’s long quest for the answe...

  • The Prodigy

    The Prodigy, originally dating from 1905, is Hermann Hesses's bitter indictment of conventional education. It is the story of Hans Giebenrath, the brilliant young son of provincial bourgeouis in southern Germany who becomes the first boy from his tow...

  • If the War Goes On . . .

    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 i...

  • Soul of the Age

    Throughout his life, Herman Hesse was a devoted letter writer. He corresponded, not just with friends and family, but also with his readers. From his letters home from the seminary at age fourteen, to his last letters, written days before his death a...

  • Crisis

    This collection of poems, written during the same period as Steppenwolf, was first published in 1928 in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Hesse's uneasiness about the degree of self-exposure in these quite untypical poems is evident in that the maj...

  • Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

    A powerful new translation of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s masterpiece of youthful rebellion -- with a foreword and cover art by James Franco A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upb...

  • In the Old Sun

    One of Herman Hesse's earliest novels, In the Old Sun (In der Alten Sonne) was completed in 1908. The book, out of print in English for a hundred years, was originally published before the novels that were to make Hesse famous in the decades after Wo...

  • Flute Dream

    “If what this subtle clever old bard was singing in his muted voice was true, then all my songs were only nonsense and silly child's play.”

    When Hesse turned thirteen he wanted to be a poet. In the words of John Keating, the character pl...

  • Gedichte

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    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Hermann Hesse has published 29 books.

Hermann Hesse does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Flute Dream, was published in February 2015.

The first book by Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, was published in January 1922.

No. Hermann Hesse does not write books in series.
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