| Management number | 219238224 | Release Date | 2026/05/03 | List Price | $0.40 | Model Number | 219238224 | ||
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The Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the most famous of Kafka's works, along with The Trial and The Castle. "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 funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the mosst widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man". Read more
| XRay | Not Enabled |
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| Language | English |
| File size | 390 KB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 82 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Publication date | May 4, 2017 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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