Editing Demian (section)

{{Short description|1919 book by Hermann Hesse}}
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{{Infobox book|<!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name              = Demian
| title_orig        = Demian: Die Geschichte Einer Jugend
| translator        = N. H. Priday
| image             = Image:Demian Erstausgabe.jpg
| caption           = First edition (German)
| author            = [[Hermann Hesse]]
| illustrator       = 
| cover_artist      = 
| country           = Germany
| language          = German
| series            = 
| genre             = 
| publisher         = [[Fischer Verlag]]
| release_date      = 1919
| english_release_date = 1923<ref>Hermann Hesse, Stanley Appelbaum. ''Demian: A Dual-Language Book''.Courier Dover Publications, 2002, p.xiv.<br>The first English translation by N. H. Priday was published in 1923 in New York by Boni & Liveright; it was re-issued in 1948 by Henry Holt.</ref>
| media_type        = Print ([[Hardcover|hardback]] & [[paperback]])
| pages             = 390 pp (1962 English edition, paperback)
| isbn              = 0-06-093191-4
| isbn_note         = (first English edition, paperback)
| dewey             = 833/.912 21
| congress          = PT2617.E85 D413 1999
| oclc              = 40739012
| preceded_by       = 
| followed_by       = 
}}
'''''Demian: The Story of a Boyhood''''' is a [[bildungsroman]] by [[Hermann Hesse]], first published in [[1919 in literature|1919]]; a prologue was added in [[1960 in literature|1960]]. ''Demian'' was first published under the pseudonym "Emil Sinclair", the name of the narrator of the story, but Hesse was later revealed to be the author; the tenth edition was the first to bear his name.