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The glass bead game (Magister Ludi) / Hermann Hesse, translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston

by Hermann Hesse, Richard Winston, Clara Winston

Set in the twenty-third century, this novel follows Joseph Knecht's rise within Castalia, an isolated province dedicated to the intellectual elite. It chronicles his education and mastery of a complex, symbolic game centred on the synthesis of all human knowledge.

Accession 9769 ISBN 0140034382 Publisher Penguin
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