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The Hermann Hesse Library

by Hermann Hesse

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The Hermann Hesse Library gathers the novels and writings of Hermann Hesse in full, inviting the listener onto a quiet path of inward travel. Here are tales of seekers, wanderers, rebels, monks, dreamers, and divided souls, each searching for the hidden music beneath the noise of the world. To listen is to follow the river, to enter the forest, to break the shell of the old self, and to come a little nearer to one’s own becoming.