Siddhartha. Journey to the Land of the East

«Siddhartha» — a gem of prose by Hermann Hesse, which reflects the writer's travels in India and his interest in Eastern religions. The setting is India during the time of Siddhartha Gautama — the founder of one of humanity's deepest and wisest religions — Buddhism. In this small book, Hesse managed to explain its essence to Europeans, to create an ideal system — a kind of collection of interconnected rules — on how to live, how to correct one's mistakes, and how to find one's true «self».
This parable is worth reading and rereading not for the plot or in search of new knowledge, but for the profound understanding of the world and the feeling of unity with others that it provides.
The edition also includes the allegorical tale «Journey to the Land of the East».