 First edition (German) | |
| Author | Hermann Hesse |
|---|---|
| Original title | Demian: Die Geschichte Einer Jugend |
| Translator | N. H. Priday |
| Language | German |
| Publisher | Fischer Verlag |
Publication date | 1919 |
| Publication place | Germany |
Published in English | 1923[1] |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 390 pp (1962 English edition, paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-06-093191-4 (first English edition, paperback) |
| OCLC | 40739012 |
| 833/.912 21 | |
| LC Class | PT2617.E85 D413 1999 |
Demian: The Story of a Boyhood is a bildungsroman by Hermann Hesse, first published in 1919; a prologue was added in 1960. Demian was first published under the pseudonym "Emil Sinclair", the name of the narrator of the story, but Hesse was later revealed to be the author; the tenth edition was the first to bear his name.
- ^ Hermann Hesse, Stanley Appelbaum. Demian: A Dual-Language Book.Courier Dover Publications, 2002, p.xiv.
The first English translation by N. H. Priday was published in 1923 in New York by Boni & Liveright; it was re-issued in 1948 by Henry Holt.