Steppenwolf

First published in German in 1927, and first translated into English in 1929, Hermann Hesse's "Steppenwolf" is the author's semi-autobiographical novel concerning the themes of isolation and despair in the face of an inability to make lasting connections with others. Framed as a manuscript written by a middle-aged man named Harry Haller, the novel recounts Harry's aimless wanderings amongst the city's bourgeois society. Mirroring Hesse's own spiritual crisis of the time, Harry finds himself ill ...