Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
- ISBN-10
- 1775412490
- ISBN-13
- 9781775412496
- Series
- Siddhartha
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 187
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-01-01
- Publisher
- The Floating Press
- Author
- Hermann Hesse
Description
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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