Siddhartha / The Dhammapada (New Directions Books)
“Delight in Hesse signifies a new delight in human mysteries, in life’s possibilities, in the power of the will and the pleasures of the imagination. (The Nation)”“InSiddharthathe setting is Indian and we encounter the Buddha, but the author’s ethos is still closer to Goethe.... (The Washington Post Book World)”“One could even hope that Hesse’s readers are hungrily imbibing Siddhartha, and that they will be so wisely foolish as to live by it. (Chicago Tribune)”“Hermann Hesse is the greatest writer of the century. (San Francisco Chronicle)”