Demian: The Story of a Youth

There are two worlds, and most people never know it. There is the bright, orderly world of light — of family dinners, school lessons, and the comfortable rules that keep life predictable and safe. And then there is the other world, the one that pulses just beneath the surface, dark and formless and terrifyingly alive. Emil Sinclair is ten years old when he first senses that other world calling to him, and nothing — not his sheltered childhood, not his pious home, not everything he has been ...