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The glass bead game / Hermann Hesse.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780099283621 (paperback)
Name	Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962 author.
Title	The glass bead game / Hermann Hesse.
Published	London : Vintage, 2000, c1943.
Description	530 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes	This translation originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969; London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.
Notes	Originally published in German under the title Das Glasperlenspiel, 1943.
Summary	The title of this novel refers to an ultra-aesthetic game played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. The game involves all branches of knowledge and spiritual values, especially those of the East.
Language note	Translated from the German.
Subjects	Psychological games -- Fiction
	Spiritual formation -- Fiction
	Enlightenment (Buddhism) -- Fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Enlightenment (Buddhism) -- Fiction . Psychological games -- Fiction . Spiritual formation -- Fiction . Authors: Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962 .