Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

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Siddhartha became extra groovy during the 60's when a group of writers, known as the Beats, got heavily into Buddhist and Hindu thought. This link, from a Buddhist publication, shows how much Eastern themes factored into one of our own great literary movements.