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This is the first English-language edition of Klingsor's Last Summer , which was originally published in 1920, a year after Demian and two years before Siddhartha. The book has three parts: a story called A Child's Heart , followed by Klein and Wagner and Klingsor's Last Summer , Hesse's two longest and finest novellas. These novellas, along with Siddhartha (the three works were republished in 1931 under the title The Inward Way), are the first fruits of the period that began in the spring of 1919, when Hesse settled in the Ticino mountain village of Montagnola to start a new life without his wife and children.
A Child's Heart , written in January 1919, in Basel, concerns the transmutation of a boy's innocence into knowledge of good and evil, and the painful guilt that accompanies this process.
Both Klein and Wagner (written in May-June 1919, immediately after the arrival in Montagnola) and _Klingsor's...
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This is the first English-language edition of _Klingsor's Last Summer_ , which was originally published in 1920, a year after _Demian_ and two years before _Siddhartha_. The book has three parts: a story called _A Child's Heart_ , followed by _Klein and Wagner_ and _Klingsor's Last Summer_ , Hesse's
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