“Beneath the Wheel” by Hermann Hesse
“Beneath the Wheel” by Hermann Hesse
(Cover designed by Milton Glaser)
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This fragrance really was the best part of the year, for it is the very essence of ripeness and harvest. It is good to suck into your lungs with winter so near since it makes you grateful and brings back a host of memories: of the gentle May rains, summer downpours, cool morning dew in autumn, tender spring sun, blazing hot summer afternoons, the whites and rose-red blossoms and the ripe red-brown glow of fruit trees before the harvest—everything beautiful and joyful that happens in the course of a year.
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Excerpt from Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse
Translated from the German by Michael Roloff
Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse
