A collection of works by Hermann Hesse, including two famous novels. “The Glass Bead Game” — a philosophical utopian novel about a fictional intellectual elite devoted to an abstract Game, symbolizing the synthesis of all human knowledge. “Journey to the East” — an allegorical narrative about the spiritual quest and internal pilgrimage of a hero striving to find harmony between Western and Eastern philosophies. Both works explore themes of self-knowledge, spiritual development, and the search for the meaning of life.