Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible,mini editions of short stories,novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers,designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna,from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island,and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed,these collectible editions are bound in colourful,tactile cloth and stamped with foil.One morning,ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach. Metamorphosis,Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour,is one of the twentieth century's most influential works of fiction,and is accompanied here by two more classic stories.'He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him'- Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241573730Number of pages: 144Weight: 180 gDimensions: 167 x 120 x 19 mm
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He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to himKafka described with wonderful imaginative power the future concentration camps,the future instability of the law,the future absolutism of the state,the paralysed,inadequately motivated,floundering lives of the many individual people; everything appeared as a nightmare and with the confusion and inadequacy of a nightmare
Franz Kafka
One of the most influential authors of the 20th Century,Franz Kafka was a Bohemian novelist and short story writer,best known for The Trial and The Metamorphosis.
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