"I cannot read Hermann Hesse without feeling that I am drawn into the presence of a deeply serious mind, a mind that is searching for the meaning of life." - Carl Jung

New translation of the original German manuscript of Nobel Prize-winning Hermann Hesse's collection of stories "Detour Stories" originally printed in Berlin in 1912. Later, this collection of stories was re-printed as "a small world" or ""Stories of the Detour". This edition also contains an epilogue by the translator, a philosophical glossary of concepts used by Hesse and a chronology of his life and work. Hesse won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947.

In Detour Stories, Hesse presents a collection of narratives:

Ladidel

The Homecoming

The World Improver

Emil Kolb

Father Matthias