The unhappiness that I need and long for... is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for. Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw him into an enchanted, Faust-like underworld. Through a series of shadowy encounters, romantic, freakish and savage by turn, Haller begins to rediscover the lost dreams of his youth. Adopted by the Sixties counterculture, Steppenwolf captured the mood of a disaffected generation that was beginning to question everything.

Vergänglich ist und dauerlos das Schöne — Hermann Hesses Lyrik ist belebend und tröstend, nutzbringend und erfreuend. Mit etwa 100 Gedichten lädt dieses erlesene Geschenkbuch Jung und Alt dazu ein, mit dem berühmten Lyriker unsere und seine »taumelbunte Welt« poetisch zu erkunden.