Page 131 "...Harry Haller's attic room in Steppenwolf"

Clockwise from top left: Max von Sydow as Harry Haller in the film "Steppenwolf";
the movie poster for "Steppenwolf"; the nobel-prize-winning novelist Hermann Hesse.




From page 131 of the book:  "...There were scattered sheaves of paper and a glass with the dried residue of inexpensive brandy or bourbon on the bot-tom. I thought of Harry Haller's attic room in Steppenwolf. Here was a retreat and a torture chamber in one."

Page 131 "...the books of the American Civil War like Joshua Chamberlain..."

From top to bottom, left to right:
Joshua Chamberlain, his book "The Passing of the Armies," Moxley Sorrel;
Sorrel's book "Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer," James Longstreet,
Longstreet's book  "From Manassas to Appomattox"
Shelby Foote, his book "The Civil War"

From page 131 of the book:  "...Below the picture was Owen's desk: a small table clut-tered with books of the American Civil War like Joshua Cham-berlain's Passing of the Armies, Moxley Sorrel's Recollections, James Longstreet's From Manassas to Appomattox, Shelby Foote's trilogy, and a dozen other volumes lending nourishment to his infatuation with this subject."