Knulp. Demian. Klingsor's Last Summer. The Soul of a Child. Klein and Wagner. Siddhartha

This collection includes several iconic works that had a huge influence on Hesse's subsequent work and formed the themes of his future magnum opus, The Glass Bead Game. In the story Knulp, the great master tells the story of a true dreamer and eternal wanderer. He is a man of mystery without roots or attachments; a free soul existing outside the established order of things. Demian is a philosophical and mystical, largely autobiographical novel about the growing up and development of a young man who discovers a deep, dark self within himself. In this he is helped by his mysterious friend Demian, the bearer of the "mark of Cain", either the devil, or a mysterious deity, or simply a product of the hero's imagination. "Siddhartha" is a pearl of Hesse's prose, on the pages of which the writer's impressions from a trip to India, as well as his reflections on one of the most profound and wise religions of mankind - Buddhism, are reflected. The edition also includes the philosophical stories "Klingsor's Last Summer", "The Soul of a Child", "Klein and Wagner".