Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
301 pages~5 hrs
“For madmen only: the price of admittance is your mind.”
Dive into the fractured psyche of Harry Haller, a man torn between his bourgeois intellectual life and the primal, untamed instincts of the 'Steppenwolf.' As he navigates a hallucinatory journey through the mysterious Magic Theater, he must confront the shadows of his own soul to find liberation in a crumbling world.
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