Unterm Rad by Hermann Hesse

"Unterm Rad" by Hermann Hesse is a narrative published in 1905. It follows Hans Giebenrath, a gifted young student pushed relentlessly by teachers and his father to excel academically. Isolated from peers and deprived of childhood pleasures, Hans enters an elite seminary where he befriends the rebellious artist Hermann Heilner. This friendship challenges Hans's carefully constructed world, leading to declining performance and psychological strain. The story explores how excessive educational pressure and rigid expectations can crush a sensitive young soul. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962
Title Unterm Rad
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_the_Wheel Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterm_Rad
Credits Produced by Norbert H. Langkau, Jens Sadowski, and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Reading Level Reading ease score: 77.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Germany -- Fiction
Subject Education -- Germany -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 49908
Release Date
Last Update Oct 24, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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