Reflections

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Hermann Hesse; selected by Volker Michels; translated by Ralph Manheim. Reflections. New Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1974. 1st American Edition, Hardbound, 8.5 inches tall, 197 pages. Sources. "The aging Hermann Hesse arranged to have privately printed a collection of thirty-nine brief passages culled from his writings, with which to reply to some of the innumerable letters he received. The existence of this book provided encouragement for the present expanded volume, which a first published in Germany in 1971."