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  • The cover shows a detail from 'The Abbey Under The Oaks' by Caspar David Friedrich, in Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin (Bisonte)

    

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• ― scatterkeir said on Jan 26, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Another excellent novel from this great writer, so its still on my shelf to read and enjoy again.

    

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• ― Canda said on Dec 4, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

Hesse's novel of two medieval men, one quietly  content with his religion and monastic life, the  other in fervent search of more worldly salvation.  This conflict between flesh and spirit, between  emotional and contemplative man, was a life study for  Hesse. It is a theme that transcends all time.  The Hesse Phenomenon "has turned into a vogue,  the vogue into a torrent. . .He has appealed both  to. . . an underground and to an establishment. .  .and to the disenchanted young sharing his contempt  for our industrial  civilization."--The New York Times Book Review

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