Butterflies

Reviews

"A lovely small book...assembles Hesse’s lepidopteran “reflections, tales and verse,” including an extract from the novel “Demian.” Translated by Elisabeth Lauffer, the selections were chosen by the world’s foremost Hesse authority, Volker Michels, who also contributes an interpretive afterword, while the little book itself is further enhanced with dozens of Jakob Hubner’s 18th-century engravings of these flowerlike insects. If you celebrate Christmas in July, this will make an ideal stocking stuffer!" — Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

"An exquisite tribute to … the natural world.
" — Portland Book Review

"A charming book for nature and literature lovers...leaving audiences feeling as lucky to encounter it as Hesse felt about meeting his winged subjects." — Foreword Reviews

"In these peaceful meditations, Nobel author Herman Hesse contemplates both the eternal and the ephemeral, the yin and yang of life.
" — Wendy Williams, New York Times best-selling author of The Language of Butterflies

"A soulful century-old reflection." — Maria Popova, The Marginalian

"This volume on butterflies is a perfect companion to the Hesse anthology on trees…[and] may give you an inkling of the wonder you had as a child." — Today’s American Catholic