Siddhartha

Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha. Translated by Susan Bernofsky.  Modern Library Classics series.  Modern Library, 2007. 9780812974782; [This product ships Direct-To-Home from our distributor (not Amazon) and is subject to a $9.99 additional shipping fee (and free shipping when your total order is over $75).] The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers.  Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.  Though set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the book's debut, the novel is infused with the sensibilities of Hermann Hesse's time, synthesizing disparate philosophies-Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism-into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man's search for meaning. It is the story of the quest of Siddhartha, a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege and comfort to seek spiritua