From The Greats
Novelist and Nobel laureate, author of The Glass Bead Game.
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The Glass Bead Game
by Hermann Hesse · 1943
Hermann Hesse's Nobel-era novel about intellectual life, games, knowledge, and meaning.
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The Glass Bead Game
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