{"product_id":"beneath-the-wheel-by-hermann-hesse","title":"Beneath the Wheel","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Hermann Hesse \u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Michael Roloff\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A remarkable mixture of affection, gentle humor, compassion, light irony, bitterness, and cold, angry indignation.”—\u003cem\u003eThe Sacramento Bee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Can be read for sheer pleasure. Hesse's peculiarly supple lyricism, his brittle irony, and his \u003cem\u003estunning\u003c\/em\u003e descriptions of nature are marvelously carried over into the English.”—\u003cem\u003eThe Saturday Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“[A] Black Forest Catcher in the Rye, a work infused with that sense of homesickness that Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., quite rightly said was so prominent in Hesse's novels.”—\u003cem\u003eThe National Observer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.neuegalerie.org\/shop\/collections\/bookstore-literature-hermann-hesse\"\u003eHermann Hesse's\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cem\u003eBeneath the Wheel\u003c\/em\u003e, Hans Giebernath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a path of serious scholarship. Hans dutifully follows the regimen of study and endless examinations, his success rewarded only with more crushing assignments. When Hans befriends a rebellious young poet, he begins to imagine other possibilities outside the narrowly circumscribed world of the academy. Finally sent home after a nervous breakdown, Hans is revived by nature and romance, and vows never to return to the gray conformity of the academic system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e192 pages\u003cbr\u003ePicador Publishing, 2003\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1906\u003cbr\u003e8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780312422301\u003cbr\u003eFiction\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":543976101,"sku":"9780312422301","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Hesse_Beneath_the_Wheel.jpg?v=1634496011","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/beneath-the-wheel-by-hermann-hesse","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}