Magister Ludi: (Recently Published As, The Glass Bead Game)
by Hermann Hesse
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Mass Market Paperback, Near Fine Vintage
- ISBN 10
- 0553229737
- ISBN 13
- 9780553229738
- Seller
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Mulvane, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Light toning, else content appears as unopened, unread and unblemished with very pictorial wraps displaying minimal surface/edge wear, as shown.
About the book: 1972 Bantam mass market paperback, Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha). Set in the 23rd century, 'The Glass Bead Game' is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game) – Goodreads
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Synopsis
The Glass Bead Game is the last work and magnum opus of the German author Hermann Hesse. Begun in 1931 and published in Switzerland in 1943, after being rejected for publication in Germany, the book was mentioned in Hesse's citation for the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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- Bookseller
- Eve's Reads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7058-10.2722
- Title
- Magister Ludi
- Author
- Hermann Hesse
- Book Condition
- Used - Mass Market Paperback, Near Fine Vintage
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed. 3rd Prtg
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0553229737
- ISBN 13
- 9780553229738
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- January, 1972
- Pages
- 520
- Keywords
- Novel
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- Unopened
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