Demian
The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
by Hermann Hesse, Thomas Wayne, and Overstreet Press
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A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment. A brilliant psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this translation, which together with James Franco’s personal and inspiring foreword will bring a new generation to Hesse’s widely influential coming-of-age novel.
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Teenage boys, Translations into English, Bildungsromans, Fiction, German fiction, Germany, Bildungsroman, Social conditions, Translations into Portuguese, Portuguese fiction, Translations from German, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Young men, German language materials, Fiction, coming of age, Germany, fiction, Youth, Fiction, general, Friendship -- Fiction, Interpersonal relations -- Fiction, Friendship, Interpersonal relations, Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933 -- Fiction, Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933, Germanic literature, Psychological fiction, Mothers and sonsPlaces
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Demian
2008, Editores Mexicanos Unidos
Paperback
in Spanish
- 1a ed., 1a reimp.
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Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
January 1993, Harpercollins
Paperback
in English
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Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
September 1, 1981, Bantam
Mass Market Paperback
in English
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Demian: die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
1978, Suhrkamp Verlag, Suhrkamp
in German
3518067060 9783518067062
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"I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school."
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