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Unterm Rad
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Beneath the Wheel (Unterm Rad) is a 1906 novel written by Hermann Hesse. The novel is a severe criticism of academic education that ignores students' personal development; in that respect, it is typical of Hesse's work. A Peter Owen Publishers translation was published in 1957 as The Prodigy. Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1968 published as Beneath the Wheel an English translation by Michael Roloff.

There are autobiographical elements in the story (Hesse attended and was expelled from the seminary described in the novel).

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Novel first published in 1906.

Last modified: 2020-10-23 (revision #35988)

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NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Unterm RadPaperback3-518-36552-51990
Peter Camenzind / Unterm RadHardcover?1952
Unterm Rad (SZ Bibliothek)Hardcover3-937793-17-82004
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8406
Wikidata Work ID
Q1325403

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