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The Prodigy, Paperback / softback Book

The Prodigy Paperback / softback

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The Prodigy, originally dating from 1905, is Hermann Hesse's bitter indictment of conventional education.

It is the story of Hans Giebenrath, the brilliant young son of provincial bourgeois in southern Germany who becomes the first boy from his town to pass into a prestigious Protestant theological college.

His spirit, however, is systematically broken by his parents and teachers; over-anxious about his success, they forget to consider his health and happiness.

Subsiding into a fatal apathy, he is taken home for medical reasons.

Here he falls in love, becomes an engineer's apprentice, learns to drink alcohol and eventually dies by drowning.

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