Siddhartha
Hesse, Hermann / Power, Words First published in 1922, 'Siddhartha' is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse, a German-Swiss novelist, poet, painter, and one of Germany's most influential writers and thinkers, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. The central theme of his work is the individual's actions to break out of the established modes of civilization so as to find an essential spirit and identity. The book was written in German, in a simple, yet po...