Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse · 1922
Philosophy · ranked #47 in category
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha.
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