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STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER PLANET

STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER PLANET

HERMANN HESSE

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Publisher:
PENGUIN CLASSICS
Year of publication:
2025
Subject:
Classic fiction
ISBN:
978-0-241-75207-4
Pages:
144
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Of course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality that they intuit...

A visitor to a zoo discovers he can understand the animals talking, a young man turns into a mountain and a bird guides a boy to another planet in this selection of dream-like and visionary fairy tales from the great German-Swiss master.

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