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Demian

Hermann Hesse

1981109 pagesabout 2 hours
1981
first published
  • 1995MacMillan · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780330339193
  • 1997Bantam Doubleday Dell · 141 pages · ENGISBN 9780553135244
  • 2010MJF Books · 158 pages · ENGISBN 9781606710289
  • 2000Dover Publications · 109 pages · ENGISBN 9780486414133
  • 1981Bantam Doubleday Dell · 141 pages · ENGISBN 9780553206968
  • 1993Harpercollins · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780060916527
  • 2002Dover Publications · 237 pages · ENGISBN 9780486420424
  • 2021Martino Fine Books · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9781684226245

A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment. A brilliant psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this translation, which together with James Franco’s personal and inspiring foreword will bring a new generation to Hesse’s widely influential coming-of-age novel.

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Emotional toneUnflinching

How it reads

Plot intensityCharacter driven
ComplexityLayered

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Written forMiddle grade

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