Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Hermann Hesse
• Title: Beneath the Wheel
• Publisher: ‎ The Noonday Press (1990)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback – 187 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0374507481
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0374507480
• Item Weight: ‎ .65 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (may show minimal markings inside front and back covers)
• Cover Condition: Very Good

Synopsis:

In Hermann Hesse’s Beneath the Wheel, Hans Giebernath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village.

When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a path of serious scholarship. Hans dutifully follows the regimen of study and endless examinations, his success rewarded only with more crushing assignments.

When Hans befriends a rebellious young poet, he begins to imagine other possibilities outside the narrowly circumscribed world of the academy.

Finally sent home after a nervous breakdown, Hans is revived by nature and romance, and vows never to return to the gray conformity of the academic system.

About the Author:

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was born in Germany and later became a citizen of Switzerland. As a Western man profoundly affected by the mysticism of Eastern thought, he wrote many novels, stories, and essays that bear a vital spiritual force that has captured the imagination and loyalty of many generations of readers. In 1946, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for The Glass Bead Game.