The glass bead game
Record details
- ISBN: 9780792759461 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 079275946X (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9781602834996 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1602834997 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [North Kingstown, R.I.] : BBC Audiobooks America, p2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 21:17:20. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by David Colacci. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 305962 KB) or OverDrive Media Console (file size: 599913 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Forecasting -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Science fiction. Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
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The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature
Set in the twenty-third century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game).