TY - BOOK AU - Hesse, Hermann TI - The Glass Bead Game SN - 9780099283621 U1 - 833.912 PY - 2000/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - Fiction KW - Novel N1 - In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge - of math's, music, philosophy, science, and art. Intrigued as a school boy, Joseph Knecht becomes consumed with mastering the game as an adult ER -