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Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)

by Hermann Hesse (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; Reissue edition (31 Dec 1982)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0553208845
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553208849
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 102,666 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover ultimate spiritual truths.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Philosophy For Life, 22 Feb 2003
This review is from: Siddhartha (Hardcover)
This novel is about our hero Siddartha's search for spiritual truth and his eventual discovery of a personal philosophy, which leads him to enlightenment and a life free of fear and desire.

Siddartha is also an allegory that can apply to all of us. It teaches us how to have a liberating philosophy for life, which most westerners will very different from their usual modern, materialistic perspectives.

Should you decide to read this wonderful work, it is worth noting from the outset that, though it contains religion, it does not preach the tenets of any faith. It is purely and simply about philosophy.

This book is worth reading for it's own merits, but if you read Hesse's Demian and Steppenwolf first you will get even more benefit from it. These three novels changed my life!

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book...for those who find a personal truth, 31 Jan 1999
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This review is from: Siddhartha (Hardcover)
The message of Siddhartha is a personal one. As such, it can't be forced on someone as "required reading". Readers will either find Siddhartha inspirational because of an inherent truth they recognize relative to their own conduct in life, or boring because they find nothing personally relevant below the surface of the simple narrative. Siddhartha is wonderfully concise...if you hate it, its over quickly, and it doesn't require too much investment to revisit years later when your relationship to the story may be profoundly different.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An all time classic!, 21 Nov 2001
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This review is from: Siddhartha (Shambhala Classics) (Paperback)
When someone gave me this book, I openend it up somewhere in the first third, just to have a glance at a few pages. Well, once started I never stopped reading till the last page and then I read it all over again.

Throughout the book you get glimpses of deep wisdom in order to find out what our lives are truely about - at the end...

Hesse's "Siddharta" is "The Alchemist" of the beginning of the 20th century; an all time classic! A must for everyone, who likes meaningfull stories.

J.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Full of quiet wisdom
Hesse's work was always concerned with spiritual quests that had a Buddhist 'feel' to them but which, in the early days, were always couched within a largely Christian framework... Read more
Published on 4 Sep 2007 by S. Lovat

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my personal favourites
I've read Sidharta many times and every time I discover something new and inspiring. Worth experiencing it.
Published on 21 April 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting from the start
I do not usually enjoy a book that is assigned to me. I thought that Siddhartha was going to boring, but from the first couple paragraphs I enjoyed how the writer describes... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars An inciteful read
The first time I read Siddhartha in the 7th grade I foud it to be a confusing, dry book. Now in the 11th grade I have read Siddhartha for the second time. Read more
Published on 10 Dec 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars A human beings quest of the meaning of life
One of the few books i have read twice in succession. The author tries to put the mystic truth of the Eastern in layman language. Read more
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