TY - BOOK AU - Hermann Hesse AU - Rosner, Hilda Tr TI - Siddhartha U1 - 833.912 23 PY - 1951/// CY - New York PB - New Directions Publishing Corporation KW - German Fiction Tr in English KW - English Novel KW - English Fiction N2 - Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse is a philosophical novel following a young Brahmin, Siddhartha, on a quest for enlightenment in ancient India. He abandons10 his comfortable life to pursue asceticism, studies under the Buddha, indulges in worldly pleasures, and eventually finds true wisdom, peace, and spiritual unity by listening to a river and working as a ferryman ER -