SIDDHARTHA

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With a new Introduction by the bestselling author Paulo Coelho

"Hesse sensed, decades before my generation... the necessity we all have to claim what is truly and rightfully ours: our own life" (Paulo Coelho)

"A writer of genius" (The Times)

Siddhartha, a handsome Brahmin's son, is clever and well loved, yet increasingly dissatisfied with the life that is expected from him. Setting out on a spiritual journey to discover a higher state of being, his quest leads him through the temptations of luxury and wealth, the pleasures of sensual love, and the sinister threat of death-dealing snakes, until, eventually, he comes to a river. There a ferryman guides him towards his destiny and to the ultimate meaning of existence. Inspired by Hermann Hesse's profound regard for transcendental philosophy and written in prose of graceful simplicity, Siddhartha is one of the most influential spiritual works of the twentieth century.

"A subtle distillation of wisdom, stylistic grace and symmetry of form" (Sunday Times)