Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha during a period of personal crisis. The novel follows Siddhartha, a young man from a Brahmin family in ancient India, who leaves home to seek enlightenment. He tries the ascetic life of the Samanas, he meets the Buddha himself but does not follow him, and he spends years as a wealthy merchant before finally finding peace beside a river.Published in 1922 and translated into English in 1951, Siddhartha became one of the most beloved spiritual novels of the twent...