"Hesse's finest short story...This book's maturity, craftsmanship, and truthfulness recommend it as an outstanding work." --"The Oregon Journal""Rosshalde shimmers with the vitality of a richly imagined existence." --"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution""A kind of disguised biography, an account of Hesse's quite private turmoil on the eve of the war." --"The Christian Science Monitor"

Hermann Hesse was born in Germany in 1877 and later became a citizen of Switzerland. As a Western man profoundly affected by the mysticism of Eastern thought, he wrote novels, stories, and essays bearing a vital spiritual force that has captured the imagination and loyalty of many generations of readers. His works include "Steppenwolf," "Narcissus and Goldmund," and "The Glass Bead Game." He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. Hermann Hesse died in 1962.