Steppenwolf
by: Hermann Hesse
Publisher: Picador (1927)
$18.99
Staff Pick by comrade: rats
The aging poet/philosopher in proto-Nazi Germany prepares to kill himself. He believes that he has lived and fought as far as he is able to and now feels alienated from the people around him and the times unfolding. As he prepares to die, uncanny events and meetings surround him and a strange young woman decides to teach him how to be a human being in all the ways he had neglected