Classic & Older Gothic

Demian

by Hermann Hesse

A young man breaks from the pieties of his upbringing under the influence of a mysterious schoolmate. Hesse's novel of awakening — part Bildungsroman, part spiritual allegory — follows Emil Sinclair as he discovers the divided self and the long work of becoming whole.

More Classic & Older Gothic

• The Hound of the Baskervilles — Anne Perry
• Magician's Gambit — David Eddings
• The Vile Village — Brett Helquist
• The Wide Window — Lemony Snicket
• The Plague — Albert Camus
• Sophie's World — Paulette Møller
• The Idiot — Frederick Whishaw
• Othello — William Shakespeare

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