6607X1 Reprint Edition. Frederick Unger, New York: 1957. 502 pages. Softcover. Reading copy. In a remote mountain province, a community of scholars devotes itself to a complex, mystical Bead Game, a universal language of the intellect in which all knowledge is reduced to a single principle. The time is the future, in a Europe engulfed in a second Dark Age after a series of devastating wars. With sensitive insight Hesse forsees the perils of a world dominated by a super-elite removed from the mainsprings of humanity. Translated into English from the German by Mervyn Savill. $21.00USD
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