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First British Commonwealth edition published 1954 by PETER OWEN LTD
Picador edition published 1973 by PAN BOOKS LTD, LONDON First Indian edition published 1973 and reprinted 1974 1976 by MACMILLAN INDIA
under arrangement with PAN BOOKS LTD, LONDON
Copyright Hermann Hesse 1922 English translation copyright Peter Owen Ltd 1954
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Published by S G Wasani for The Macmillan Company of India Ltd and Printed by M C Abraham at Macmillan India Press, Madras 600.002
Hermann Hesse, who is ranked with the great masters of contemporary literature, was born in Württemberg in 1877. He intended to follow in the footsteps of his father, a Protestant pastor and missionary, but rebelled against traditional academic education and worked as a bookseller, antique dealer and mechanic. After his first novel, Peter Camenzind, was published in 1904, he devoted himself to writing. In 1919, as a protest against German militarism, he moved to Switzerland, where he lived in self-imposed exile until his death in 1962.
Hesse was strongly influenced by his interest in music, the psychoanalytic theories of Jung, and Eastern thought. He wrote: My political faith is that of a democrat, my world outlook that of an individualist.' Hesse's books include Klingsor's Last Summer, Knulp, Rosshalde, Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.
