The Glass Bead Game

Name: The Glass Bead Game
Author: Hermann Hesse

by Hermann Hesse

Futuristic novel imagining an elite intellectual game in an isolated scholarly community

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Hermann Hesse

German-Swiss novelist and Nobel laureate whose explorations of spirituality, individualism, and self-discovery resonated profoundly with 20th-century readers. Steppenwolf and Siddhartha remain enduring classics of existential fiction.

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