Siddhartha: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Siddhartha, credited to Hermann Hesse, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse. Translated by Gunther Olesch, Anke Dreher, Amy Coulter, Stefan Langer and Semyon Chaichenets Read by Adrian Praetzellis Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment. On the way he faces the entire range of human experience and emotion: he lives with ascetics, meets Gotama the Buddha, learns the art of love from Kamala the courtesan, and is transformed by the simple philosophy of 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 awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Siddhartha
• Author credits: Hermann Hesse
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 5:06:16

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• allegory
• India
• Gautama Buddha
• spiritual journey
• enlightenment
• Brahmin
• ascetics

Track guide

1. 01 The Son of the Brahman — 21:00
2. 02 With the Samanas — 27:05
3. 03 Gotama — 23:54
4. 04 Awakening — 12:24
5. 05 Kamala — 36:32
6. 06 With the Childlike People — 22:15
7. 07 Sansara — 24:58
8. 08 By the River — 30:53
9. 09 The Ferryman — 35:07
10. 10 The Son — 24:27
11. 11 Om — 18:30
12. 12 Govinda — 29:08

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