Hermann Hesse: Narcissus and Goldmund: Hermann Hesse (Penguin Modern Classics) [2017] paperback LGBT San Francisco Chronicle

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Hermann Hesse: Narcissus and Goldmund: Hermann Hesse (Penguin Modern Classics) [2017] paperback LGBT San Francisco Chronicle'One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel' Guardian One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled in the extremes of life in a world dominated by sin, plague and war, the other staying in the monastery and struggling, with equal difficulty, to lead a life of