Siddhartha

by Herman Hesse

Library binding, 152 pages

English language

Published June 9, 1983 by Lightyear Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-89966-447-7
OCLC Number:: 17288366

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Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.

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