The Metamorphosis (Enriched Classics) - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416599681 ISBN 13: 9781416599685

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2009

Synopsis

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.

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

So begins The Metamorphosis, one of the most recognizable opening lines in literature. The story of Gregor Samsa, a young man who, after transforming overnight into a giant, beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, and a quintessentially alienated man. One of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction, The Metamorphosis is a harrowing yet absurdly comic meditation on inadequacy, guilt, and isolation. A work in which, in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, “contrast and unity, style and matter, manner and plot are most perfectly integrated.”

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About this title

About the Author

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born in Prague. Widely esteemed as one of the twentieth century's most important writers, he is the author of the novels The Trial and The Castle.

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416599681
• ISBN 13: 9781416599685
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 144