The Prodigy, originally dating from 1905, is Hermann Hesse's bitter indictment of conventional education. It is the story of Hans Giebenrath, the brilliant young son of provincial bourgeois in southern Germany who becomes the first boy from his town to pass into a prestigious Protestant theological college. His spirit, however, is systematically broken by his parents and teachers; over-anxious about his success, they forget to consider his health and happiness. Subsiding into a fatal apathy, he is taken home for medical reasons. Here he falls in love, becomes an engineer's apprentice, learns to drink alcohol and eventually dies by drowning.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN-13
9780720614299
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108549301
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Prodigy
Author
Hermann Hesse
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
184mm
Item Width
129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Hermann Hesse
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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