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Published April 9, 2009 by New Directions.
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha (2009, New Directions)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8112-1850-4
- OCLC Number:
- 317919581
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Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.
Subjects
- Buddhism -- Fiction
- Buddhist philosophy -- Fiction
- India -- Fiction