First published in 1919, it is a brilliant journey of the psyche written
by one of Germany's most influential writers and thinkers-Herman Hesse.
A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond
the conventions of his upbringing. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn
into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His
guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes
in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfilment.