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Acclaimed graphic artist Peter Kuper presents a brilliant, darkly comic reimagining of Kafka’s classic tale of family, alienation, and a giant bug. Kuper’s electric drawings—which merge American cartooning with German expressionism—bring Kafka’s prose to vivid life, reviving the original story’s humor and poignancy in a way that will surprise and delight readers of Kafka and graphic novels alike. “A brilliant... (more)

Prozess (The Trial)

by Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir, George Steiner

Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism,... (more)

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

by Franz Kafka

"Had one to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relations to our age as Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka is the first one would think of."-- W. H. Auden Packaged with French flaps, acid-free paper, and rough front.

Complete Stories of Franz Kafka

by Arthur Samuelson, Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Franz Kafka

In nonstop color photos Burns takes readers on a voyeuristic journey through a bygone world, illustrating the precious pieces that antique dealers and fleamarketers hotly compete for today. A must for lovers of Americana and nostalgia. 100 four-color photos.

Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka

by Franz Kafka

Amerika

by Franz Kafka

Text: English (translation) Original Language: German

Amerika. (English)

by Mark Harman, Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka's diaries and letters suggest that his fascination with America grew out of a desire to break away from his native Prague, even if only in his imagination. Kafka died before he could finish what he like to call his "American novel,: but he clearly entitled it Der Verschollene ("The Missing Person") in a letter to his fiancee, Felice Bauer, in 1912. Kafka began writing the novel that fall and wrote... (more)

Die Verwandlung

by Franz Kafka

This new edition of Kafka's famous story contains a critical introduction and notes which help to explain how the author achieves his particular effects.

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories (Schocken Kafka Library)

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories (Schocken Kafka Library)

by Willa Muir, Edwin Muir, Arthur Samuelson, Franz Kafka, Joachim Neugroschel

The best-known novellas and stories of one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century. Included are "The Judgment," "A Country Doctor," and "A Hunger Artist." New Foreword by Anne Rice.

The Metamorphosis (Bloom's Guides)

by Franz Kafka

A novel about a man who finds himself transformed into a huge insect, and the effects of this change upon his life.

Complete Short Stories

by Franz Kafka

The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age

The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age

by Gouglas [editor] Angus

Metamorphosis (Oberon Modern Plays S.)

by Franz Kafka

Here is Franz Kafka's terrifying but bizarrely comic story in a theatrically explosive new version. The ordinary, unremarkable life of the Samsas is turned into a six-legged nightmare when their son Gregor emerges one morning transformed into a monstrous insect. As revulsion turns to resentment, strange things start to happen to the Samsa family.

The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

Der Process (Erläuterungen und Dokumente)

Der Process (Erläuterungen und Dokumente)

by Franz Kafka

Text: German

The Short Story: 30 MasterpiecesBeverly Lawn

The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces

by Beverly Lawn

Strange Dreams

A collection of twenty-seven short works of fantasy features the work of Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Orson Scott Card, Greg Bear, Theodore Sturgeon, Jorge Luis Borges, and others.

The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka

The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka

by Ernst Pawel

A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world.

Kafka. Gesammelte Werke. Die Kafka- Kassette.Franz Kafka

Kafka. Gesammelte Werke. Die Kafka- Kassette.

by Franz Kafka

CastleFranz Kafka

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