Hermann Hesse 
collection of Hesse’s Fairy Tales 

This book contains twenty fairy tales created by Hermann Hesse, covering his entire composition career and witnessing his life path.Hesse’s fairy tales are not fairy tale works in the traditional sense, but are influnced by both eastern and western fairy tales traditions.From the Two Brothers created at ten years old, to the last work Bird created in the year of 1933, all the fairy tale works witnesses Hesse’s attempt to record his own inner world as an artist using this genre.Like many European writers of his time, Hesse paid close attention to what was going on around him:the rapid development of technology, the rise of materilism, the outbreak of World Wars, the rise and fall of economies and etc.All this, as well as his personal trauma, questions and dreams, is perfectly embodied in the world of artistic fairy tales.