Recommended Reading:
Hermann Hesse: SOUL OF THE AGE

Edited with an Introduction by

Theodore Ziolkowski

Translated by Mark Harmon

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991 (paperback), 347 pp,
$13.00

PT2617.E85Z48 1991 - ISBN 0-374-52363-0

Hermann Hesse - the Nobel Prize-Winning author of some
of the most widely read novels of this century, including STEPPENWOLF and
NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND - did not write an autobiography.  But
his more than 30,000 letters constitute a remarkable record of his life. 
For SOUL OF THE AGE, Professor Theodore Ziolkowski has chosen
nearly 300 letters from Hesse's personal as well as public correspondence. 
From his impassioned missives home from the seminary at age fourteen, to
his last brief notes, written days before his death at eighty-five, the
letters provide an intimate look at Hesse's intellectual and spiritual
world.