Demian: the story of Emil Sinclair's youth
β Scribed by Hermann Hesse
- Book ID
- 100127507
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Classics
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 214 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 132281418X
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β¦ Synopsis
A powerful new translation of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's masterpiece of youthful rebellionβwith a foreword and cover art by James Franco
A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment. A brilliant psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this translation, which together with James Franco's personal and inspiring foreword will bring a new generation to Hesse's widely influential coming-of-age novel.
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