01244nam a22001937a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020001800062040002700080041002100107082001400128100001900142245003700161260005100198300002000249500042900269504031700698700003501015OSt20251212070643.0250724b        |||||||| |||| 00| 1 eng d  a9780486404370  cGoethe Zentrum Library  aEnglish & German  aFP1998/08  aHesse, Hermann  aSiddhartha. A dual-language Book  aMineola, New York :bDover Publications,c1998  a175p.c:13x21cm  a The story concerns a young Brahman who quits his comfortable to join a roving group of holy men striving to empty their hearts of passion and desire through self-denial and meditation. discouraged by failure to find Nirvana after three years of the strictest asceticism, the young seeker turns the fleshly world, where he becomes a wealthy merchant and part takes of sensual pleasures with a sophisticated courtesan........  aThe present edition, first published by Dover in 1998, contains the full German text of the work originally published by S. Fischer, Berlin, in 1922, along with a new English translation by Stanley Appelbaum, who also wrote the introduction, footnotes and Glossary of Indian Terms, and added a table of contents.  aAppelbaum, StanleyeTranslator