Throughout his career, Hesse was preoccupied with thoughts about the fate of the world, art and civilization. The writer began working on his main novel, The Bead Game, a couple of years before the Nazis came to power, published it in 1943, the turning point of World War II, and in 1946 he received the Nobel Prize for it. In this, as Thomas Mann defines it, "joyfully mysterious book" written in an atmosphere of universal militarization and barbarism, Hesse asks the main question: How can one save one's personality and spirituality during a period of cultural collapse and general moral decline?Due to the complexity of its construction, the interweaving of many genre forms, the richness of symbolism, terms and concepts from various fields of culture, the novel was not understood and accepted by everyone, but immediately generated heated discussions and became a spiritual guide for entire generations around the world. Steppenwolf is one of the most important novels of the 20th century, first published in 1927. This is both a philosophical parable and, at the same time, a deep study of the psychology of a person who is vainly trying to find and find his own Self, constantly balancing at the junction of animal and human principles. This is a love story that leads to an unexpected tragic outcome, and it is also a political and social novel in which the hero acts as a fierce critic of the existing philistinism. The edition also includes the allegorical story "Journey to the Land of the East".