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
In my college years, I was much taken with Herman Hesse and read many of his novels including his last, longest and most difficult book "The Glass Bead Game". Then, for many years I left Hesse alone ... 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
