Steppenwolf -- Hermann Hesse

<b>Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's iconic countercultural novel about the search for authenticity in an inauthentic world, in a new translation <p/>A Penguin Classic</b> <p/>At first glance, Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality, he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society, and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage encounters--accompanied by, among others, Mozart, Goethe, and the bewitching Hermione--the misanthropic Haller undergoes a spiritual, even psychedelic, journey, and ultimately discovers a higher truth and the possibility of happiness. <p/>This blistering portrait of a man who feels himself to be half human and half wolf was the bible of the 1960s counterculture, capturing the mood of a disaffected generation. It continues to resonate as a haunting story of estrangement, redemption, and the search for one's place in the world.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Hermann Hesse<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Classics<br><b>Published:</b> 03/04/2025<br><b>Pages:</b> 256<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.81lbs<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780143137825<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Hermann Hesse</b> (1877&shy;-1962) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. His many books include <i>Demian</i>, <i> Siddhartha</i>, <i> </i>and<i> Narcissus and Goldmund.</i> <p/><b>David Horrocks</b> (translator) was a lecturer in German at Keele University. He wrote about and taught Germ