The Hermann Hesse Collection for Palm OS

About The Hermann Hesse Collection

Herman Hesse CollectionHe might be called "the poster boy of the 60s," so much was he considered a spiritual guide to thatgeneration, and his works were considered required reading. Now, you can read eight of his most famous novels inThe Hermann Hesse Collection. The collection includes: 

• Beneath the Wheel
• Demian
• Journey to the East
• Magister Ludi

• Peter Camenzind
• Rosshalde
• Siddhartha
• Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse was born in 1877 in Calw, Germany, and raised in a missionary family. In 1891, he rebelled against organized religion, and fled from the Maulbronn seminary. He worked as a clerk in bookshops for several yearsbefore publishing his first novel, "Peter Camenzind", in 1904, followed by "Beneath the Wheel" in 1906. Astaunch opponent of WWI, Hesse wrote antiwar tracts from his new home in Switzerland.  "There is no reality except the one contained within us.
That is why so many people live such an unreal life.
They take the images outside them for reality
and never allow the world within to assert itself." 
Steppenwolf
Herman Hesse Following the breakup of his first marriage, Hesse underwent psychoanalysis with an assistant of Carl Jung, and this experience heavily influenced his writingfrom that point on including, "Demian", "Siddhartha", "Steppenwolf", "Journey to the East" and "Magister Ludi". Hessereceived the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946, and spent the remainder of his life living in seclusion in Montagnola, Switzerland, until his death in 1962.To read The Hermann HesseCollection on your Palm, you must first have eReader installed. If you don't already have it, visit their web site to download a free copy. BecauseThe Hermann Hesse Collectionis downloaded in a zipped format, you must first unzip it using either Winzip or Stuffit Expander, then, use your desktop software to install thenovels you want to read to your handheld, and start eReader. It's that easy!