An edition of Demian (1919)

Demian

The Story Of Emil Sinclairs Youth

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An edition of Demian (1919)

Demian

The Story Of Emil Sinclairs Youth

by

  • ★★★★ 4.2 (53 ratings)
  • 500 Want to read
  • 44 Currently reading
  • 82 Have read

A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment. A brilliant psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this translation, which together with James Franco’s personal and inspiring foreword will bring a new generation to Hesse’s widely influential coming-of-age novel.

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Bantam Doubleday Dell
Language
English
Pages
141

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Teenage boys Translations into English Bildungsromans Fiction German fiction Germany Bildungsroman Social conditions Translations into Portuguese Portuguese fiction Translations from German Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) Young men German language materials Fiction, coming of age Germany, fiction Youth Fiction, general Friendship -- Fiction Interpersonal relations -- Fiction Friendship Interpersonal relations Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933 -- Fiction Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933 Germanic literature Psychological fiction Mothers and sons Juvenile fiction

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Demian
2008, Editores Mexicanos Unidos
Paperback in Spanish - 1a ed., 1a reimp.
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Demian
December 18, 2000, Dover Publications
Paperback in English
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Demian
July 1, 1999, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
in English
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Demian: The Story Of Emil Sinclairs Youth
1997, Bantam Doubleday Dell
Paperback in English
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Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
January 1993, Harpercollins
Paperback in English
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Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
September 1, 1981, Bantam
Mass Market Paperback in English
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Demian: die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
1978, Suhrkamp Verlag, Suhrkamp
in German
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Demian: the story of Emil Sinclair's youth.
1965, Harper & Row
in English - [1st ed.]
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Demian: the story of Emil Sinclair's youth.
1965, Harper & Row
in English and German - [1st ed.]
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Demian: die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
1960, Suhrkamp
in German
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Demian
1960, Peter Owen
in English and German
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Demian
1923, Boni and Liveright
in English

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First Sentence

"I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school."

Edition Notes

Published in
New York (New York), USA
Translation Of
Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
Translated From
German

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
141

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7818273M
ISBN 10
0553135244
ISBN 13
9780553135244
LibraryThing
8422
Goodreads
1529830

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Work ID
OL30457295W

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