Peter Camenzind
by Hesse, Hermann
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0720600200
- ISBN 13
- 9780720600209
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Peter Owen Ltd.. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1968. First British Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0720600200 . DJ scuffed, soiled, price clipped with light chipping. Water stain base of DJ spine, small stain base of back board, some soiling on half-title and facing page. ; A tight solid book. DJ in Mylar. This is the English language version of the book, translated from the German by W.J. Strachan. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 174 pages; "Peter Camenzind, a young man from a Swiss mountain village, leaves his home and eagerly takes to the road in search of new experience. Traveling through Italy and France, Camenzind is increasingly disillusioned by the suffering he discovers around him; after failed romances and a tragic friendship, his idealism fades into crushing hopelessness. He finds peace again only when he cares for Boppi, an invalid who renews Camenzind's love for humanity and inspires him once again to find joy in the smallest details of every life." .
Synopsis
Peter Camenzind, published in 1904, was the first novel by Hermann Hesse and contains a number of themes that were to preoccupy many of Hesse's later works, most notably the individual's search for a unique spiritual and physical identity amidst the backdrops of nature and modern civilization and the role of art in the formation of personal identity. The style of Peter Camenzind is easy to follow, even as it is a Bildungsroman in an atypical sense.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6930
- Title
- Peter Camenzind
- Author
- Hesse, Hermann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First British Edition; Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0720600200
- ISBN 13
- 9780720600209
- Publisher
- Peter Owen Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- 0720600200, hermann hesse
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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