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Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
Hermann Hesse
2015 · Start Publishing LLC
Teenage boysTranslations into EnglishBildungsromansFictionGerman fiction
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A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment. A brilliant psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this translation, which together with James Franco’s…
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