Herman Hesse's 1922 Bildungsroman parallels the life of Buddha and seems to argue that lessons cannot be taught but come from one's own struggle to find truth. Siddhartha is that most unusual of all stories - one that follows a character throughout most of his life . . . and describes that life in terms of a spiritual journey.
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TheCambridge Introduction to Hermann Melville
Traveling from Pittsfield,Massachusetts to Albany,New York oneNovember to spend Thanksgiving with his family, HermanMelville, at eighteen, had time to reflect on his personal situation. Born in New York City on 1 August 1819, he had enjoyed a comfortable boyhood, but reverses in his father’s business during Herman’s adolescence had forced the family to relocate to Albany, where his father fared no better. Overambitious schemes and overextended credit took their toll.He died a broken
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Herman Hesse's introspective, lyrical writing won him praise from the literary world, while his sense of estrangement from industrialized civilization and endorsement of pacificism brought him wide popular approval. Winner of the Nobel Prize for The Glass Bead Game, Hesse renders life's callings in a way that has called readers to a renewed sense of purpose and possibility.