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100 1 _aHesse, Hermann,
_d1877-1962
245 1 4 _aDer Steppenwolf
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_(novel)
500 _aRelease date is 2025-04-06
508 _aJens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Der Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse is a novel written in the late 19th to early 20th century. The book centers on the character Harry Haller, a solitary, introspective intellectual struggling with deep alienation from society and his own inner turmoil. The story explores themes of individuality, duality of human nature, and the quest for meaning in a troubled world. Readers interested in psychological depth, philosophical musings, and an exploration of existential struggles may find this novel particularly appealing. The opening of "Der Steppenwolf" begins with a foreword by an unnamed editor, who recounts his impressions and observations of Harry Haller, the Steppenwolf, during his tenancy in the editor’s family home. Haller is depicted as an outsider, both admired and pitied, whose life is marked by profound loneliness and self-contempt despite his intelligence and sensitivity. The narrative then shifts to Haller’s own writings, where he describes the monotonous, numbing routine of his days, his aversion to bourgeois comforts, and his yearning for experiences outside ordinary life. Early in Haller's manuscript, the “Tractate of the Steppenwolf” introduces the core metaphor of his existence—a man divided between civilized humanity and wild, wolfish nature—establishing the book’s central psychological conflict. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBerlin: S. Fischer, 1927
653 _aPsychological fiction
653 _aGermany -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
653 _aLife -- Fiction
653 _aCivilization, Western -- Fiction
653 _aMen -- Germany -- Psychology -- Fiction
653 _aIntellectuals -- Germany -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75802
999 _c116527
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