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Metamorphosis

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241260654

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 18mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 185g

  • RRP: £5.99

Metamorphosis

'I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.'

Featuring an ordinary man who wakes up to find himself turned into a giant cockroach, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, is brought together here with the best of his short stories.

A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241260654

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 18mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 185g

  • RRP: £5.99

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About the Author

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial and The Castle.

Franz Kafka

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