Siddhartha Audiobook (Free)

Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical books. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of the Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong trip towards Enlightenment. Along the way he faces the entire selection of individual experience and emotion: he lives with ascetics, matches Gotama the Buddha, learns the artwork of like from Kamala the courtesan, and it is transformed by the simple philosophy from the ferryman Vasudeva whose wisdom comes not from learned teachings but from observing the River. Herman Hesse (1877-1962) was a German-Swiss novelist, poet, and painter. He was granted the Nobel Reward in Books in 1946.