Siddhartha

Paperback, 213 pages

Published March 3, 1998 by Pan MacMillan, Picador.

ISBN:
9780330354851

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Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.

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