Gertrude

Hermann Hesse

Original title: Gertrud

earliest edition we have, 1955 Editores Mexicanos Unidos, S.A., 1994 paperback

Suhrkamp taschenbuch — book 890

In this fictional memoir, the renowned composer Kuhn recounts his tangled relationships with two artists--his friend Heinrich Muoth, a brooding, self-destructive opera singer, and the gentle, self-assured Gertrude Imthor. Kuhn is drawn to Gertrude upon their first meeting, but Gertrude falls in love with Heinrich, to whom she is introduced when Kuhn auditions them for the leads in his new opera. Hopelessly ill-matche...

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This book in English

H. Rosner 1 printing we hold · 1955 · Peter Owen Ltd
Hilda Rosner 1 printing we hold · 2005 · Picador

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Editions we hold

Gertrude paperback · 2019 · BNPublishing · 9781684117178
Gertrude paperback · 2005 · Picador · 237 pages · 9780312424633
Gertrude edition · 1997 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 237 pages
Gertrude paperback · 1994 · Gallimard · 237 pages · 9782070388219
Gertrude paperback · 1994 · Editores Mexicanos Unidos, S.A. · 9789681509217
Gertrud edition · 1983 · Suhrkamp
Gertrud edition · 1977 · Rowohlt · 122 pages
Gertrude. edition · 1974 · G. K. Hall · 335 pages
Gertrude paperback · 1973 · Penguin · 157 pages
Gertrude hardcover · 1955 · Peter Owen Ltd · 208 pages · 9780720636796

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