The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers?a perennial favorite for graduation gifts.
Nominated as one of America?s best-loved novels by PBS?s The Great American ReadThough set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the book?s debut, the novel is infused with the sensibilities of Hermann Hesse?s time, synthesizing disparate philosophies?Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism?into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man?s search for meaning.