Soul Of The Age; Selected Letters Of Hermann Hesse 1891 - 1962 by Hesse, Hermann - 1991

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0374126127 . An attractive Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition in its first printing, Fine condition in about Fine dust-jacket, a hint of sunning to spine; Soul of the Age contains nearly 300 letters of Hesse's correspondence of more than thirty thousand letters. From his impassioned missives home from the seminary at age fourteen, to his last brief notes, written days before his death at eighty five, these letters constitute a continuing record of Hesse's life, the raw materials underlying his Nobel Prize-winning fiction ; xx, 347, [1] pages .