# Steppenwolf

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- Book: [Steppenwolf](https://www.bookquiver.com/hermann-hesse/steppenwolf) ([Steppenwolf.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/hermann-hesse/steppenwolf.md))
- Authors: [Hermann Hesse](https://www.bookquiver.com/hermann-hesse)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-152-1
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2011-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'The unhappiness that I need and long for . . . is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.' Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw him into an enchanted, Faust-like underworld. Through a series of shadowy encounters, romantic, freakish and savage by turn, Haller begins to rediscover the lost dreams of his youth. Adopted by the Sixties counterculture, Steppenwolf captured the mood of a disaffected generation that was beginning to question everything.