Introduction Suggestions for Further Reading A Note on the Translation SIDDHARTHAġ This elegant new translation of Hermann Hesse's best known work is both appropriate and timely. Printed in the United States of America Set in Bemboĭesigned by Betty Lew Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Siddhartha I Hermann Hesse translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel with an introduction by Ralph Freedman.

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Translated from the German by JOACHIM NEUGROSCHEL

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