Hesse, Hermann

Presents a moral allegory, set in ancient India, about one soul's quest for the ultimate answer to the enigma of man's role in the world and features the hero, Siddhartha, who undergoes a series of experiences to emerge in a state of peace and wisdom.

Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a recluse for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile all his views without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises.

A moral allegory, set in ancient India, about one soul's quest for the ultimate answer to the enigma of man's role in the world. The hero, Siddhartha, undergoes a series of experiences to emerge in a state of peace and wisdom.

A critique of bourgeois society as perceived by a lonely and sensitive man through his partly beautiful, partly diseased fantasies.

A young man rebels against convention, gets involved in the world of petty crime, and discovers his new powers for good and evil.

Siddhartha undergoes a series of experiences in ancient India on a quest for the ultimate answer to the enigma of humanity's role in the world, and emerges in a state of peace and wisdom.