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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 Castle

by Franz Kafka

Based on the restored text of Kafka's masterpiece, Mark Harman's acclaimed translation is "the closest to Kafka's original novel and intention that any translation could get . . . eminently readable" (Egon Schwartz, Washington University in St. Louis).

Amerika

by Franz Kafka

Text: English (translation) Original Language: German

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.

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.

El Proceso [The Trial]

by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka

This brilliant writer knew how to create a nightmare world where things happen without any explanation, where the characters fight against a fate which they doÃ‚Â´nt understand, where there are effects without any apparent cause and where all happens without any explanation, but even so, it is impossible to escape from the fascination of the plot..

Die Verwandlung / Brief an den Vater und andere Werke. Mit Materialien. (Lernmaterialien)

Die Verwandlung / Brief an den Vater und andere Werke. Mit Materialien. (Lernmaterialien)

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.

Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami

With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to... (more)

Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)

by Franz Kafka, Gabriel Josipovici

Introduction by Gabriel Josipovici, Translation by Willa and Edwin Muir

The Metamorphosis (A Norton Critical Edition)

The Metamorphosis (A Norton Critical Edition)

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.

Kafka : The Complete Stories & ParablesFranz Kafka

Kafka : The Complete Stories & Parables

by Franz Kafka

Basic Kafka

by Franz Kafka

Letter to my Father

by Franz Kafka

Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and in this open letter to his father—a letter that was never sent—Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as a long, tense, and dramatic confession in which writer and man are gathered together in front of an ambivalent figure of authority, Letter to My Father is a... (more)

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

A metamorfose

seguido de O Veredicto

by Franz Kafka

"Quando Gregor Samsa despertou uma manhã na sua cama de sonhos inquietos, viu-se metamorfoseado num monstruoso inseto ".É deste modo que Kafka inicia a história de Gregor Samsa, um caixeiro-viajante "obrigado" que deixou de ter vida própria para suportar financeiramente todas as despesas de casa.Numa manhã, ao acordar para o trabalho, Gregor vê que se transformou num inseto horrível com um... (more)

Naked Metamorphosis

by Eric Mays

Kafka's Shakespearean Tragedy! All the world's a stage...and Franz Kafka wants to direct! The absurdist has got his hot little hands on the Bard's greatest work - Hamlet. Unfortunately, William S. Burroughs wants to direct too! Perhaps, George W. Bush wants a piece of the action as well. One thing these literary creators haven't taken into consideration, though, are the characters. Horatio, Hamlet's... (more)

The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka

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