Beneath the Wheel

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Beneath the Wheel

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ISBN: 9780312422301
author: Hermann Hesse
translator: Michael Roloff
publishing house: Picador
publication date: 2003 -7
binding: Paperback
price: USD 15.00
number of pages: 192

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Hermann Hesse    translator: Michael Roloff

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Hans Giebenrath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a path of serious scholarship. Hans dutifully follows the regimen of study and endless examinations, his success rewarded only with more crushing assignments. When Hans befriends a rebellious young poet, he begins to imagine other possibilities outside the narrowly circumscribed world of the academy. Finally sent home after a nervous breakdown, Hans is revived by nature and romance, and vows never to return to the gray conformity of the academic system.

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