
Stories of Five Decades
This selection of twenty-three stories (twenty available in English for the first time) offers a spectrum of Hesse''s writing from 1899 to 1948 that could be matched only by an edition of his poetry, since in no other form--novel, essay, autobiographical reflection--did he span so many years. Here, within the covers of a single volume, the reader can trace Hesse''s development from the aestheticis...
This selection of twenty-three stories (twenty available in English for the first time) offers a spectrum of Hesse''s writing from 1899 to 1948 that could be matched only by an edition of his poetry, since in no other form--novel, essay, autobiographical reflection--did he span so many years. Here, within the covers of a single volume, the reader can trace Hesse''s development from the aestheticis...