The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text

Franz Kafka

ISBN 10: 0805241183 / ISBN 13: 9780805241181

Published by Schocken, 1998

About this Item

First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Schocken, 1998. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new. Excellent copy of this compelling novel.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Seller Inventory # 350209

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text
• Publisher: Schocken
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805241183
• ISBN 13: 9780805241181
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

A fantasy novel, depicting human attempts to arrive closer to God, considered to be a symbolic classic

About the Author

The son of a well-to-do merchant, Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanitorium near Vienna in 1924. After earning a law degree in 1906, he worked most of his adult life at the Workers Accident Insurance Company for the Kingdom of Bohemia in Prague. Only a small portion of his writings were published during his lifetime; most of them, including the three unfinished novels, Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle, were published posthumously.

Mark Harman holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and has taught German and Irish literature at Oberlin and Dartmouth. In addition to writing scholarly essays on Kafka and other modern authors, he has edited and co-translated Robert Walser Rediscovered: Stories, Fairy-Tale Plays, and Critical Responses and has tra