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The metamorphosis and other stories / Franz Kafka ; translated by Joyce Crick ; with an introduction and notes by Ritchie Robertson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford world's classics
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. English. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Translations into English.
- Kafka, Franz.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (195 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.'With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begins his most famous short story, The Metamorphosis. A commercial traveller is unexpectedly freed from his dreary job by his inexplicable transformation into an insect, which drastically alters his relationship with his family. Kafka considered publishing it with two of the stories included here in a volume to be called Punishments. The Judgement also concerns family tensions, when a power strugglebetw
- Contents:
- Meditation
- The judgement
- The metamorphosis
- In the penal colony
- Letter to his father.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-198958-4
- 0-19-157986-6
- 1-282-33661-4
- 9786612336614
- 0-19-157050-8
- OCLC:
- 480613296
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