The Prodigy
London: Peter Owen & Vision Press, 1961.
Second Impression. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5". 188pp. Rubbing, chipping, creasing, toning, and tears to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Sunning to spine of jacket. Toning and rubbing to corners and edges of gray paper over boards. Boards are slightly warped. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is firm and sound. A presentable early printing in dust jacket of this novel indicting conventional education by Hermann Hesse.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
The Prodigy, originally dating from 1905, is Hermann Hesses's bitter indictment of conventional education. It is the story of Hans Giebenrath, the brilliant young son of provincial bourgeouis 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. Out of his attitude to the treatment that he perceived was common within the German schooling system at the turn of the century, Hesse developed his own deeply personal views on the value of Eastern education in developing the self.(Publisher). Good + / good +. Item #14637
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