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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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Hermann Hesse · Nobel Prize-winning novelist

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Hermann HesseNobel Prize-winning novelist

Novelist and Nobel laureate, author of The Glass Bead Game.

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One of my favourite books of all-time: The Glass Bead Game.
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