This review is not of Hesse's Siddhartha per se, but of the uncredited English translation shown above. I read Siddhartha for the first time in English some decades ago and have read other works by ... Read More
This past Fourth Of July, I tried to think of an American book which expressed something of our country in a fresh way. I settled on Kerouac's "On The Road", a book I have read several times and ... Read More
I first read Herman Hesse's novel "Steppenwolf" in the late 1960s, as did many baby boomers. Although I loved the novel at the time, I gradually became embarrassed by the book as an error of my youth ... Read More
