Historical Book Review on Siddhartha: An Indian Tale by Herman Hesse

Historical Book Review on Siddhartha
Herman Hesse's 'Siddhartha: An Indian Tale' was published in 1922. It is considered to be Hesse's best work and is still very popular to this day. It is a fictitious biography and it records the passage of Siddhartha through phases in life until he attains enlightenment.
To understand why Hesse wrote this book, one most first know some background information about him. Herman Hesse (of German heritage) was, at one point, considered to be a Romanticist author. After World War I, Hesse's perception of life had changed tremendously. His attempts to cope a…