Hermann Hesse 2 hr 3 min read

Dreamlike fairy tales and parables, of a poet, a dwarf, strange journeys of the soul, from a master of German literature at his most lyrical and visionary.

Hermann Hesse's 1919 'Fairy Tales' gathers his mystical, allegorical short fiction. Beautiful, meditative, profound. Read it for luminous literary fairy tales from a Nobel laureate, where the fantastic becomes a mirror of the inner life, in German.

In its time

Published in 1919, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 3 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).