{"product_id":"siddhartha-9781515434559","title":"Siddhartha","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSiddhartha is a simple yet powerful and lyrical novel.\u003c\/strong\u003e Siddhartha is a man in search of enlightenment in the time of Buddah. He learns that experience is the best way to approach understanding of reality and attain enlightenment. Hermann Hesse won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. A landmark novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHERMANN HESSE was born in 1877 in Calw, Germany. He was the son and grandson of Protestant missionaries and was educated in religious schools until the age of thirteen, when he dropped out of school. At age eighteen he moved to Basel, Switzerland, to work as a bookseller and lived in Switzerland for most of his life. His early novels include \u003ci\u003ePeter Camenzind\u003c\/i\u003e (1904), \u003ci\u003eBeneath the Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e (1906), \u003ci\u003eGertrud\u003c\/i\u003e (1910), and \u003ci\u003eRosshalde\u003c\/i\u003e (1914). During this period Hesse married and had three sons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring World War I, Hesse worked to supply German prisoners of war with reading materials and expressed his pacifist leanings in antiwar tracts and novels. Hesse's lifelong battles with depression drew him to study Freud during this period and, later, to undergo analysis with Jung. His first major literary success was the novel \u003ci\u003eDemian\u003c\/i\u003e (1919). When Hesse's first marriage ended, he moved to Montagnola, Switzerland, where he created his best-known works: \u003ci\u003eSiddhartha\u003c\/i\u003e (1922), \u003ci\u003eSteppenwolf\u003c\/i\u003e (1927), \u003ci\u003eNarcissus and Goldmund\u003c\/i\u003e (1930), \u003ci\u003eJourney to the East\u003c\/i\u003e (1932), and \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Bead Game\u003c\/i\u003e (1943). Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. He died in 1962 at the age of eighty-five.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wilder Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51648766148882,"sku":"9781515434559","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4b6b06f1-466e-40ac-88c5-c0d5008e8d60.jpg?v=1773150646","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/siddhartha-9781515434559","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}