Prose and Poetry

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Prose Poetry Essays and Letters

 
 
1. Prose (aphabetical order)
 
 
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• Beneath the Wheel (20th printing, 1997,  New printing 1998,

The Noonday Press by Farrar, Straus and Giroux) ISBN 0-374-50748-1, listed on cover for US $12.50,
Plot outline ( ADOBE ACROBAT READER required. Click the Adobe icon at the bottom of this page.)
 

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•                                     Demian (available from Harper Collins as of  3/26/98)

Plot outline written for the "Hermann Hesse Page" © Kathryn Byrnes, 3/26/98
You need to download the free ADOBE ACROBAT READER to read the outline.
Click the Adobe icon at the bottom of this page.

When was Hesse's pseudonym lifted and the subtitle of Demian changed?

(Note: If you can read German, you definitely should try to get a hold of the two volumes of the
paperback Materialien zu Hermann Hesse "Demian", Suhrkamp Taschenbuch,
1993 and 1998, which contain considerable background materials and many authoritative essays.)
 

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• The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse

(A Bantam Trade Paperback, Classics, November 1995, 266 pp.,
ISBN 0-553-37776-0, cover US $ 14.95)
Table of Contents - Blurb
 

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• Gertrude

                                            (new printing 1998 as Noonday paperback)
                                             ISBN 0-374-50812-7, listed on cover for US $12.00. (cf. essay in Italian in Vol. II, 1999, of the HHP Journal)
 

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• The Glass Bead Game
 (Owl Books, Henry Holt, 1990, ISBN 0-8050-1246-X, $13.95 cover)
(check links)




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• Journey to Nuremberg

(published in Autobiographical Writings
no information, assumed to be out of print)

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• Journey to the East (in print by Farrar, Straus and Giroux);

                                                new printing 1998, ISBN 0-374-50036-3, US $11.00

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• Klein and Wagner

(published in "Klingsor's Last Summer", out of print)
Short Plot outline.

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• Klingsor's Last Summer

(out of print as per Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 6/2/97;
check "Book dealers" (Main Menu) for availability in the United Kingdom) or:
Granada, Panther Books
http://www.bookshop.co.uk/scripts/webbook.asp?shop=1&isbn=0586062122 -
for 2.50 pounds + 7 pounds shipping for the first book (total $13), figure on a little more than three weeks if ordering from the U.S.
Information: Courtesy of Oliver Slay in the U.K. in May 1997

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• Knulp (out of print as per Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 6/2/97)

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• Narcissus and Goldmund  (available from Bantam Books, January 1971)

                                              ISBN 0-553-27586-0; price listed on cover $ 6.50;
                                              new printing by The Noonday Press 1998, ISBN 0-374-50684-1; listed on
                                             cover US $13.00.

                                              Summary written by Hajo Smit, Breda, Netherlands
 

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• Peter Camenzind (New  printing, 1998, The Noonday Press by Farrar,

                                                 Straus and Giroux) ISBN 0-374-50784-8,  listed on cover  for US $12.50

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• Pictor's Metamorphosis and other Fantasies (in print by Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

new printing 1998, ISBN 0-374-51723-1, US $12.00.)
 

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• Rosshalde (re-printed as Noonday paperback 1998)

                                               ISBN 0-374-50896-8, listed on cover for US $12.00.
 
 

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•                               Siddhartha (links for more material)

(available in the Bantam edition of 1971 which apparently was recently re-issued; translated by Hilda Rosner, 152 pp. ISBN 0-553-20884-5;  price listed on cover: $ 4.99)
(also available from Penguin Putnam Books in the translation by Joachim Neugroschel with an introduction by Ralph Freedman, 176 pp. Penguin Classic/20 C  ISBN 0-14-118123-0 $5.95 - Catalog for 2001)


Siddhartha (text on-line)

 Plot outline written for the "Hermann Hesse Page" © Kathryn Byrnes, 3/26/98
You need to download the free ADOBE ACROBAT READER to read the outline.
Click the Adobe icon at the bottom of this page.
Siddhartha Glossary © by HHP

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• Spa Visitor (Guest at the Spa)
(published in Autobiographical Writings
no information, assumed to be unavailable)

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• Steppenwolf(available from Henry Holt, Owl Books, 1990

                                                        (cover $ 9.95, ISBN 0-8050-1247-8)

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• Stories of Five Decades

 
(table of contents with blurb) Adobe Reader required
Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1973,
Noonday #455 - no information, assumed to be out of print, but see the following note
from the HHP Guestbook:
Translated by Ralph Manheim and Denver Lindley, Introduction by Th. Ziolkowski

01st March 2001 - 01:28:55 PM
      megan
     i was rsearching hesse and found your site to be helpful. thanks. i
     thought you would like to know that you can special-order "Stories
     of Five Decades" from borders.com)
 
 

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• Strange News from Another Star   (blurb, with contents)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1972, Noonday #432 - no information, assumed to be out of print)

 

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• Tales of Student Life (blurb with contents)

                                         Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1976
                                         Noonday #533 - no information, assumed to be out of print)
 

 
2. Poetry (check links) (3/19/97)

 
• Poems (table of contents) (selected and transl. by James Wright - Farrar, Straus
and Giroux , 1970; Noonday #386 - no information, assumed to be unavailable);
check Panther Book Series of Granada in the U.K. for ordering from England.
 

3. Essays and Letters:
 
 
• Autobiographical Writings(table of contents) (selected by Theodore Ziolkowski,

translated by Denver Lindley
Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1971 - no information, assumed to be unavailable)
 
• If the War Goes On ...(table of contents and blurb)

Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 3rd printing, 1971
Noonday #407 - no information, assumed to be out of print)
 

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• My Belief (table of contents) (ed. by Theodore Ziolkowski, translated by

Denver Lindley
Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1974, - no information, assumed to be out of print)
 
• Reflections (table of contents) (selected by Volker Michels, transl. by Ralph Manheim -

Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1974 Noonday #452 - no information, assumed to be out of print)
 
• Soul of the Age (Hesse's Letters selected by Theodore Ziolkowski

and translated by Mark Harman) ("Out-of-stock" by Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
as per UCSB Bookstore on 3/4/98; no date given for reprinting)
 

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• Wandering (table of contents), translated by James Wright, Hesse water colors in black and white (!),

New York: Girard, Straus & Giroux, 1974, Noonday paperback #420,
out of print

• "On Writing" (text)(summary,in: Hermann Hesse Page HHP)(5/12/97)

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