Hermann Hesse Audio

A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man's quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its 1919 publication.

Step into a world of visions, philosophy, and passion in which dreamers, seekers, princesses, and...

Set in the 23rd century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish.

Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character.

This compelling spiritual quest by Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946...

This classic of 20th-century literature, translated by Sherab Chodzin Kohn, chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time of the Buddha...

Siddhartha is the story of a man from the Indian Subcontinent who sets out on a spiritual quest of discovery. Rejecting conventional spiritual practices and teachings, he attempts to find his own path to enlightenment.

In many works by Herman Hesse, the German novelist and Nobel Prize winner, there is a theme depicting the duality of spirit and nature, body versus mind...

With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, this story follows a young Brahmn on his quest for the ultimate reality.

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.