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    <body><![CDATA[Now that I’ve reached middle age, I thought it was time to revisit that classic of earnest adolescent angst (despite the fact the novel’s hero is nearly 50 years old), Hermann Hesse’ <em>Steppenwolf</em>.<br/><br/>I found the early sections of the book dull, flat, pretentious, and swimming in its own...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51388251">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ What can one say about a book that totally owns your soul? I read this book every couple of years, and I almost always get something new out of it. The first half is like a manifesto for the depressed, in which we're introduced to Harry, and learn the nature of a Steppenwolf, a quintessential outsi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17145025">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book really spoke to me - it examines the two sides of human nature - uninhibited primal urges and intellectual human endeavour... Hesse himself was torn between the two (and also examines this in Narziss and Goldmund) - at once loathing himself for succumbing to lust and hedonism, and at the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6353423">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[best passage of the book:<br/><br/>Whereupon it occurred to me--so it is with everyone.  Just as I dress and go out to visit the professor and exchange a few more or less insincere compliments with him, without really wanting to at all, so it is with the majority of men day by day and hour by hour...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/993591">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. The tale of the Steppenwolf culminates in the surreal Magic Theater&#8212;for mad men only.<br/><br/><em>Steppenwolf</em>is Hesse's best-known and most autobiographical work. With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, it is one of literature's most poetic evocations of the soul's journey to liberation. Originally published in English in 1929, the novel';s wisdom continues to speak to our souls and marks it as a classic of modern literature.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first time I read this book I felt like it had been written for me, and I was young enough that it made a strong impression on my sense of self. The second time I read it I realized that Hesse pulled off the amazing feat of writing a book that appeals to many but feels very personal. I feel more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46028684">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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