TY - BOOK AU - Horrocks, David AU - Hesse, Hermann TI - Steppenwolf T2 - Penguin Modern Classics SN - 9780141192093 PY - 2012/// PB - Penguin Books KW - P-EN KW - Fiction KW - Not so classic (English) KW - Novels N2 - At first sight Harry Haller seems a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage encounters - accompanied by, among others, Mozart, Goethe and the bewitching Hermione - the misanthropic Haller discovers a higher truth, and the possibility of happiness. This blistering portrayal of a man who feels himself to be half-human and half-wolf was the bible of the 1960s counterculture, capturing the mood of a disaffected generation, and remains a haunting story of estrangement and redemption ER -