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This assembled volume brings together 22 of Hesse’s most celebrated fairy tales, many rendered into English for the first time. Drawing on both Eastern and Western folklore, Hesse’s lyrical prose creates a vibrant, symbolic landscape that challenges readers to confront questions of meaning and transformation.
The tales feature visionaries, seekers, princesses, and wandering poets, each narrative probing the human psyche’s longing for spiritual insight, the tension between solitude and creative expression, and the erosion of Western cultural values. Hesse’s stories remain strikingly innovative, inviting contemplation of dualistic existence and the quest for personal and cultural enlightenment.
First publish date: 1995
Genre: General Fiction/Short Stories
Authors: Hermann Hesse
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