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Siddhartha
An Indian Tale
Some journeys do not lead across landscapes, but through silence, doubt, and the longing to understand one’s own life. Siddhartha is a book about a search that cannot be borrowed from others or hurried to its end. In a calm voice, it speaks of the restlessness of a person seeking meaning through lived experience. Its quiet power lies in this simplicity: it does not hand the reader an answer, but gently invites them to begin asking their own questions.
Part of Journeys Inward
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- Author
- Hermann Hesse
- Language
- Czech
- Edition type
- Public domain
- Publisher / imprint
- ARTales
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Reference
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2500
- Publication status
- Published
About the author
Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss writer and poet who brought to modern literature a profound search for identity, spiritual balance, and inner freedom. In Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, and The Glass Bead Game, he wrote in a meditative, symbolic style about people torn between social order and the longing for self-knowledge. His work includes novels, short stories, essays, poems, and reflections on art, Eastern philosophy, and the meaning of life. Although he is often read as a writer of quiet wisdom, Hesse himself lived through rebellion, psychological crisis, and a difficult search for belonging. That may be why his books rarely feel like final answers, but rather like luminous maps for anyone still learning how to understand themselves.
About the collection
Journeys Inward
Books about the search for identity, meaning, faith, inner truth, self-knowledge, and personal transformation. This collection belongs to works in which the most important journey does not cross maps or oceans, but moves through doubt, longing, mistakes, and self-discovery.