Hmm, how hard is Der Steppenwolf to read? I'm a (lapsed) intermediate level German speaker, but I remember reading the first bit of it in English in high school

Hmm, how hard is Der Steppenwolf to read? I'm a (lapsed) intermediate level German speaker, but I remember reading the first bit of it in English in high school and liking it. Also, https://www.fadedpage.com/ https://www.fadedpage.com/ has stuff freely available under Canadian copyright law, which seems to have stuff from the 50s (70 years maybe?).