Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse’s poetical novel, Steppenwolf, was written some twenty years before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. This Faust-like and magical story of the humanisation of a middle-aged misanthrope was described in the New York Times as a ‘savage indictment of bourgeois society’. But, as the author notes in this edition, Steppenwolf is a book which has been violently misunderstood. This self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of intellectual hypocrisy.
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Condition: Fair
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
Publication Date: 1965
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 140023321
by Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse’s poetical novel, Steppenwolf, was written some twenty years before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. This Faust-like and magical story of the humanisation of a middle-aged misanthrope was described in the New York Times as a ‘savage indictment of bourgeois society’. But, as the author notes in this edition, Steppenwolf is a book which has been violently misunderstood. This self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of intellectual hypocrisy.
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Condition: Fair
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
Publication Date: 1965
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 140023321
by Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse’s poetical novel, Steppenwolf, was written some twenty years before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. This Faust-like and magical story of the humanisation of a middle-aged misanthrope was described in the New York Times as a ‘savage indictment of bourgeois society’. But, as the author notes in this edition, Steppenwolf is a book which has been violently misunderstood. This self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of intellectual hypocrisy.
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Condition: Fair
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
Publication Date: 1965
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 140023321