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Pictor's Metamorphoses

and Other Fantasies

Author: Hermann Hesse; Introduction by Theodore Ziolkowski; Translated by Rika Lesser

Pictor's Metamorphoses

Pictor's Metamorphoses

$11.99

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In the spring of 1922, several months after completing Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse wrote a fairy tale that was also a love story, inspired by the woman who was to become his second wife. That...

Page Count
240
On Sale
01/22/2013

Book Details

In the spring of 1922, several months after completing Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse wrote a fairy tale that was also a love story, inspired by the woman who was to become his second wife. That story, Pictor's Metamorphoses, is the centerpiece of this anthology of Hesse's luminous short fiction. Based on The Arabian Nights and the work of the Brothers Grimm, the nineteen stories collected here represent a half century of Hesse's short writings. They display the full range of Hesse's lifetime fascination with fantasy--as dream, fairy tale, satire, or allegory.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9781466835146

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“Enchanting.” —Los Angeles Times

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Pictor's Metamorphoses

Pictor's Metamorphoses

$11.99