{"product_id":"siddhartha-hardcover-2","title":"Siddhartha: A Novel of Self-Discovery and the Search for Inner Understanding - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHermann Hesse\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA concise philosophical novel tracing a solitary search for meaning, knowledge, and inner unity.\u003c\/strong\u003e In \u003cem\u003eSiddhartha\u003c\/em\u003e, Hermann Hesse follows the journey of a young man who turns away from formal teaching and inherited belief in order to pursue direct understanding through experience. Moving through stages of discipline, asceticism, desire, and renunciation, Siddhartha seeks not doctrine but insight-an understanding that must be lived rather than taught.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel unfolds as a sequence of encounters and transformations, each testing the limits of intellectual knowledge and spiritual ambition. Hesse draws on elements of Indian religious and philosophical tradition while shaping a distinctly modern narrative concerned with individuality, self-realisation, and the reconciliation of opposites. The prose remains controlled and deliberate, allowing reflection to emerge through image and pattern rather than argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePositioned at the intersection of literature and philosophy, \u003cem\u003eSiddhartha\u003c\/em\u003e continues to be widely read as a work of contemplative fiction. It offers a sustained meditation on the nature of identity, time, and understanding, and remains central to discussions of spiritual and philosophical literature in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHERMANN HESSE was born in 1877 in Calw, Germany. He was the son and grandson of Protestant missionaries and was educated in religious schools until the age of thirteen, when he dropped out of school. At age eighteen he moved to Basel, Switzerland, to work as a bookseller and lived in Switzerland for most of his life. His early novels include \u003ci\u003ePeter Camenzind\u003c\/i\u003e (1904), \u003ci\u003eBeneath the Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e (1906), \u003ci\u003eGertrud\u003c\/i\u003e (1910), and \u003ci\u003eRosshalde\u003c\/i\u003e (1914). During this period Hesse married and had three sons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring World War I, Hesse worked to supply German prisoners of war with reading materials and expressed his pacifist leanings in antiwar tracts and novels. Hesse's lifelong battles with depression drew him to study Freud during this period and, later, to undergo analysis with Jung. His first major literary success was the novel \u003ci\u003eDemian\u003c\/i\u003e (1919). When Hesse's first marriage ended, he moved to Montagnola, Switzerland, where he created his best-known works: \u003ci\u003eSiddhartha\u003c\/i\u003e (1922), \u003ci\u003eSteppenwolf\u003c\/i\u003e (1927), \u003ci\u003eNarcissus and Goldmund\u003c\/i\u003e (1930), \u003ci\u003eJourney to the East\u003c\/i\u003e (1932), and \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Bead Game\u003c\/i\u003e (1943). Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. He died in 1962 at the age of eighty-five.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Siddhartha (English)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.1\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45164508283019,"sku":"9781515434559","price":48.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/1a65_DQ0gW9781515434559.webp?v=1783257234","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/siddhartha-hardcover-2","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}