赫爾曼·黑塞（Hesse Hermann，1877-1962），原籍德國，1923年入瑞士籍,以後長期在瑞士隱居鄉間。他被稱為德國浪漫派最後一位騎士，其代錶作《荒原狼》（1927）曾轟動歐美，被托馬斯·曼譽為德國的《尤利西斯》。1946年，“由於他的富於靈感的作品具有遒勁的氣勢和洞察力，也為崇高的人道主義理想和高尚風格提供瞭一個範例”，獲諾貝爾文學奬。

This is a complete and unabridged reading of Herman Hesse's modern classic - a haunting story of estrangement and redemption. Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesse's best-known and most autobiographical work, published in English in 1929, "Steppenwolf" continues to speak to our souls and marks it as a classic of modern literature. It is read by acclaimed US actor Peter Weller.