Demian

A 1919 novel by Hermann Hesse, told as the first-person story of Emil Sinclair's youth. It follows a boy navigating the conflict between the ordered world of family and respectability and a darker, tempting outside world as he searches for his true self.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Topic

Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic romance and society novels›German, Austrian, and Swiss novels›First World War and the 1920s, 1914 to 1929

Reader

Adults›Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic romance and society novels›German, Austrian, and Swiss novels›First World War and the 1920s, 1914 to 1929