A modernist work of profound wisdom that continues to enthral readers with its subtle blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, the "Penguin Modern Classics" edition of Hermann Hesse's "Steppenwolf" is revised by Walter Sorell from Basil Creighton. At first sight Harry Haller is a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. It is not only a matter of time, but it is also a matter of time and space, and it is not the same as it is in Mozart. This blistering portrayal of a man who feels himself to be half-human and half-wolf was the bible of the 1960s counterculture, Capturing the mood of a disaffected generation, and a haunting story of estrangement and redemption. Herman Hesse (1877-1962) suffered from depression and weathered series of personal crises which led him to undergo psychoanalysis with JB Lang; A process which drags in "Demian" (1919), a novel whose main character is torn between the orderliness of bourgeois existence and the turbulent and enticing world of sensual experience. "The Glass Bead Game" (1943), "Siddhartha" (1922), "Steppenwolf" (1927), "Narcissus and Goldmund" (1930) and his magnum opus, Hesse's subsequent novels. Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. If you enjoyed "Steppenwolf", you might like Hesse's "Siddhartha" Also available in "Penguin Classics". "A savage indictment of bourgeois society ... the gripping and fascinating story of disease in a man's soul". ("The New York Times").