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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 traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find... Read Full Overview

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning, fromrestless dreams he found himself recast in hisbed into a gigantic insect.

He was laying on his hard, as it werearmour-plated, back and when he raised hishead a little he could see his domelike browntummy separated into... Read Full Overview

Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold Featuring 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,... Read Full Overview

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."

This hardback gift edition presents Franz Kafka's celebrated novella, Metamorphosis, featuring a silver embossed cover design, patterned endpapers and gilded page edges.

The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been called one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking... Read Full Overview

Del mito de un escritor enfermo, atormentado y poco exitoso en vida, ha emergido, poco a poco, la figura de un creador apasionado por el mundo, e interesado por las vicisitudes de su comunidad y la pol?tica de su tiempo. As? tambi?n, para el lector contempor?neo, m?s habituado... Read Full Overview

Die Verwandlung ist eine im Jahr 1912 entstandene Erz hlung von Franz Kafka. Die Geschichte handelt von Gregor Samsa, dessen pl tzliche Verwandlung in ein Ungeziefer die Kommunikation seines sozialen Umfelds mit ihm immer mehr hemmt, bis er von seiner Familie f r untragbar gehalten... Read Full Overview

This version of the novella has been accommodated for German learners.

The original German version of the story has been aligned side-by-side with the official English translation by Ian Johnston.

German is printed on the... Read Full Overview