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- catalog abstract "From the Back Cover: The Prodigy, originally dating from 1905, is Hermann Hesse's bitter indictment of conventional education. It is the story of Hans Giebenrath, the brilliant young son of provincial bourgeois in southern Germany who becomes the first boy from his town to pass into a prestigious Protestant theological college. His spirit, however, is systematically broken by his parents and teacher; over-anxious about his success, they forget to consider his health and happiness. Subsiding into a fatal apathy, he is taken home for medical reasons. Here he falls in love, becomes an engineer's apprentice, learns to drink alcohol and eventually dies by drowning. Out of his attitude to the treatment that he perceived was common within the German schooling system at the beginning of the twentieth century, Hesse developed his own deeply personal views on the value of Eastern education in developing the self.".
- catalog alternative "Unterm Rad. English".
- catalog contributor b12636784.
- catalog contributor b12636785.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description "From the Back Cover: The Prodigy, originally dating from 1905, is Hermann Hesse's bitter indictment of conventional education. It is the story of Hans Giebenrath, the brilliant young son of provincial bourgeois in southern Germany who becomes the first boy from his town to pass into a prestigious Protestant theological college. His spirit, however, is systematically broken by his parents and teacher; over-anxious about his success, they forget to consider his health and happiness. Subsiding into a fatal apathy, he is taken home for medical reasons. Here he falls in love, becomes an engineer's apprentice, learns to drink alcohol and eventually dies by drowning. Out of his attitude to the treatment that he perceived was common within the German schooling system at the beginning of the twentieth century, Hesse developed his own deeply personal views on the value of Eastern education in developing the self.".
- catalog extent "188 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0720611741".
- catalog isPartOf "Peter Owen modern classics".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "Translated from the German.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engger".
- catalog publisher "London : Peter Owen,".
- catalog subject "833.912 21".
- catalog subject "Gifted children Education Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Gifted children Psychology Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PT2617.E85 U613 2002".
- catalog title "The prodigy / Hermann Hesse.".
- catalog title "Unterm Rad. English".
- catalog type "Autobiographical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".