German poet and novelist Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) is the author of Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and Narcissus and Goldmund, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.
Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment. On the way he fa...[SEE MORE]