Stories of five decades / Hermann Hesse ; edited, and with an introduction, by Theodore Ziolkowski ; translated by Ralph Manheim, with two stories translated by Denver Lindley.
The island dream -- Incipit vita nova -- To Frau Gertrud -- November night -- The marble works -- The Latin scholar -- The wolf -- Walter Kömpff -- The field devil -- Chagrin d'amour -- A man by the name of Ziegler -- The homecoming -- The city -- Robert Aghion -- The cyclone -- From the childhood of Saint Francis of Assisi -- Inside and outside -- Tragic -- Dream journeys -- Harry, the Steppenwolf -- An evening with Dr. Faust -- Edmund -- The interrupted class.
Summary
Twenty-three stories arranged in chronological order that are primarily concerned with the authors own secret.
