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The Castle by Franz Kafka
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he fi ...Show more
The Castle by Franz Kafka
Category: Fiction
K is the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K's struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal a truth about the nature ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka; Edwin Muir (Translator)
Category: Classics
In AmericaKarl Rossmann is 'packed off to America by his parents' to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and 'America' is never quite as real as it should be. Kafka, a Czech writing in German, never acutally visited America; so, as Max Brod commented, ' ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories by Franz Kafka
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary 'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. Auden This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth ...Show more
The Essential Kafka Boxed Set: The Castle, Metamorphosis and Other Stories, The Trial by Franz Kafka
Category: Accessories
A culturally-influential and celebrated author, Kafka is generally considered to be one of the most accomplished writers of the twentieth century. The term 'Kafkaesque' takes its place in the English vernacular, demonstrating his huge impact on modern thought. In this covetable and must-have boxed set a ...Show more
The Great Horror and Fantasy Collection by Wilkie Collins; Franz Kafka; H. P. Lovecraft; Bram Stoker; Edgar Allan Poe; Henry James; Mary Shelley; Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Classics
This boxset contains 8 terrifying and entertaining horror and fantasy novels: The Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsMetamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Lovecraft Compendium by H. P. LovecraftDracula by Bram StokerClassic Tales of Horror by Edgar Allan PoeThe Turn of the Screw by Henry JamesFrankenstein by Ma ...Show more
The Great Wall of China by Malcom (TRN) Malcom (EDT); Pasley Franz; Pasley Kafka
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley CorngoldFeaturing essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly fun ...Show more
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Category: Classics
Franz Kafka, (born July 3, 1883, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]--died June 3, 1924, Kierling, near Vienna, Austria), German-language writer of visionary fiction whose works--especially the novel Der Prozess (1925; The Trial) and the story Die Verwandlung (1915; The Metamorphosi ...Show more
The Metamorphosis: A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky by Franz Kafka (translated by Susan Bernofsky)
Category: Classics
Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains, a century later, one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of travelling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into ...Show more
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa was a meek salesman, browbeaten by his unappreciative employer and depended on fiercely by his ungrateful family. This morning, Gregor awakens to discover that, overnight, he has been transformed into a monstrous insect. As Gregor frantically tries to conceal his predicament ...Show more