Description: **** VERY GOOD CONDITION ADULT OWNED / SMOKE FREE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE INQUIRE Beneath the Wheel Hermann Hesse 2001 TPB Philosophy Germany Roman German Lit. - K3 In Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheel or The Prodigy, Hans Giebenrath 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 the regimen of tireless study and endless examinations, his success rewarded only with more crushing assignments. When Hans befriends a rebellious young poet, he begins to imagine other possibilities outside the narrowly circumscribed world of the academy. Finally sent home after a nervous breakdown, Hans is revived by nature and romance, and vows never to return to the gray conformity of the academic system. Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946. Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game , which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society. In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world; worldwide fame only came later. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind , first great novel of Hesse. Throughout Germany, people named many schools. In 1964, people founded the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, awarded biennially, alternately to a German-language literary journal or to the translator of work of Hesse to a foreign language. The city of Karlsruhe, Germany, also associates a Hermann Hesse prize. Dimensions: 7" x 4.25" x 0.5" Some rubbing/roughingdent on covers (see pics) Personalized inside cover (see pic) Last couple of pages have stain at bottom edge (see pic) Thanks For Viewing :) ..ooOO PLEASE SEE MY OTHER ITEMS FOR SHIPPING DISCOUNTS OOoo.. * INSURANCE (OPTIONAL) PLEASE INQUIRE * _gsrx_vers_1652 (GS 9.7.4 (1652))
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Author: Herman Hesse, Michael Roloff (translated)
Book Title: Beneath the Wheel
Language: English
Topic: Philosophy, Germany, Roman, Dramas, School
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Genre: German Lit., Philosophy, Drama
Publication Year: 1976
Features: N/A
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Type: Novel
Narrative Type: Fiction
Edition: First Edition
Intended Audience: Adults
Vintage: Yes
Personalized: Yes
Illustrator: N/A
Number of Pages: 216
ISBN 13: N/A
ISBN 10: 0553103520
Library of Congress: N/A
Printing: Seventh