The Prodigy by Hermann Hesse - 1974

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Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Very Good. 1977. Reprint; Fifth Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Minor cover creases, paper starting to tone. ; Fifth printing of Penguin mass market edition. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover design by David Pocknell. ; 160 pages; Hermann Hesse's indictment of conventional education. A brilliantly gifted young boy's spirit is systematically broken by his parents and teachers who, over anxious about his success, fail to consider his health and hapiness. .

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New York: Penguin Books, 1973. Later printing. Paperback. Shelfwear, and water damage. Very good. 157pp. The Prodigy, originally dating from 1905, is Hermann Hesses's bitter indictment of conventional education. It is the story of Hans Giebenrath, the brilliant young son of provincial bourgeouis in southern Germany who becomes the first boy from his town to pass into a prestigious Protestant theological college. His spirit, however, is systematically broken by his parents and teachers; over anxious about his success, they forget to consider his health and happiness. Subsiding into a fatal apathy, he is taken home for medical reasons. Here he falls in love, becomes an engineer's apprentice, learns to drink alcohol and eventually dies by drowning. Out of his attitude to the treatment that he perceived was common within the German schooling system at the turn of the century, Hesse developed his own deeply personal views on the value of Eastern education in developing the self. T8288.

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Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1978. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Reprint. 157pp. Clean copy inside & out. No inscriptions. Strong binding. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket..

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HARMONDSWORTH: PENGUIN, 1973 Mass Market Paperback 180 x 110 mm approx. First Penguin printing 1973. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and for condition. VG (Book- no notable shelf wear or soiling. Paper of book block tanned to margins. No previous owner name or insc. Binding sound. An unread copy)

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