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Beneath the Wheel
1906 novel by Hermann Hesse
Beneath the Wheel (Unterm Rad) is a 1906 novel written by Hermann Hesse. The novel is a severe criticism of academic education that ignores students' personal development; in that respect, it is typical of Hesse's work. A Peter Owen Publishers translation[1] was published in 1957 as The Prodigy. Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1968 published as Beneath the Wheel an English translation by Michael Roloff.[2]
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There are autobiographical elements in the story (Hesse attended and was expelled from the seminary described in the novel).[1]