This collection includes several iconic works that had a huge influence on Hesse’s further work. “Peter Camenzind” tells the story of the “years of wanderings and studies” of the main character - an ordinary peasant guy. Youth, study, first love and true friendship, the search for oneself and a better life, the first bitter disappointments and the gradual acquisition of life experience - this is what makes up the content of this very lyrical, partly autobiographical story. The theme of education and the race for illusory school successes is also raised story "Under the Wheel". The gifted and fragile boy Hans Giebenrath devotes all his free time to study, voluntarily giving up his favorite fishing and walks with friends for one goal - to enter the seminary. And so - the bar has been met, the exam has been passed brilliantly, but now Hans is increasingly afraid of falling behind and falls “under the wheel” of the soulless education machine... The publication also includes the philosophical stories “Klingsor’s Last Summer”, “The Soul of a Child”, “Klein and Wagner”.