HERMANN HESSE - SIDDHARTHA & DEMIAN (2 Paperback Books) Penguin Modern Classics

 HERMAN HESSE Paperbacks:

1) SIDDHARTHA. (With a new Introduction by Paulo Coelho.) Translated from the German by Hilda Rosner.

Siddhartha, a handsome Brahmin's son, is clever and well loved, yet increasingly dissatisfied with the life that is expected of him. Setting out on a spiritual journey to discover a higher state of being, his quest leads him through the temptations of luxury and wealth, the pleasures of sensual love. and the sinister threat of death-dealing snakes, until, eventually, he comes to a river. There a ferryman guides him towards his destiny, and to the ultimate meaning of existence.
  Inspired by Hermann Hesse;'s profound regard for Indian transcenental philosophy and written in prose of graceful simplicity, SIDDHARTHA is one of the most influential spiritual works of the twentieth century

First published in 1922, this Penguin Modern Classics paperback edition published in 2008 (£9.99 r.r.p.) - In AS-NEW, UNREAD condition.

 

2) DEMIAN  Translated by W.J. Strachan.

Emil grows up the creature of two worlds: the safe clean, respectable world of parents and school, and another world - a place of danger and mystery, servents' gossip andghost stories, the dark currents that run under the surface. As he struggles between light and darkness, only the guidance of his friend and mentor Max Demia can lead him on a journey towards self-realisation, in Hesse's fable of adolescent awakening and spiritual enlightenment.

First published in 1958, this Penguin Modern Classics paperback edition published in 2017 (£8.99r.r.p.) - in AS-NEW, UNREAD condition.

 

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