Also published as: Magister Ludi

Author: Hermann Hesse Year: 1943 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Philosophy, Science fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble OpenLibrary Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312278496 0312278497

The Glass Bead Game, for which Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, is the author's last and crowning achievement, the most imaginative and prophetic of all his novels. Setting the story in the distant postapocalyptic future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals who play an elaborate game that uses all the cultural and scientific knowledge of the Ages. The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature. This edition features a Foreword by Theodore Ziolkowski that places the book in the full context of Hesse's thought. Similar books: Demian by Hermann Hesse Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse Peter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse Gertrude by Hermann Hesse Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann The Flounder by Gunter Grass Local Anaesthetic by Gunter Grass Death in Venice by Thomas Mann Vertigo by W. G. Sebald Narziss and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Tales of Student Life by Hermann Hesse Island by Aldous Huxley