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Metamorphosis: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the ...Show more
Metamorphosis: and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes "Metamorphosis", his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; "Meditation", a collection of his earlier studies; "The Judgement" ...Show more
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation ...Show more
The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka; Reiner Stach (Editor); Shelley Frisch (Translator)
29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature--featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographer In 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zürau aphorisms, after the Bohemian village in which he composed them. Among the ...Show more
The Burrow by Franz Kafka; Michael Hofmann (Translator)
16.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Translated by Michael Hofmann.'They come, you hear the scratch of their claws just below you in the ground, and already you are lost.'Strange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. Some are less than a page long, others more sub ...Show more
The Burrow and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fiction Strange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. Some are less than a page long, others more substantial; all were unpubli ...Show more
The Castle by Franz Kafka
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he fi ...Show more
The Castle by Franz Kafka
19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Translated by J. A. Underwood with an Introduction by Idris Parry. 'K., he said, had taken the rousing from sleep, the interrogation, and the obligatory threat of explusion from the country with a very bad grace' The Castleis the story of K., the unwanted land surveyor who is never to be admitted to the ...Show more
The Castle by Franz Kafka; J. A. Underwood (Translator); Idris Parry (Introduction by)
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
On his deathbed, Franz Kafka asked that all his unpublished manuscripts be burned. Fortunately, his request was ignored, allowing such works as The Trial to earn recognition among the literary masterpieces of the 20th century. This brilliant translation of The Castle captures comedic elements and visual ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka; Edwin Muir (Translator)
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In AmericaKarl Rossmann is 'packed off to America by his parents' to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and 'America' is never quite as real as it should be. Kafka, a Czech writing in German, never acutally visited America; so, as Max Brod commented, ' ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories by Franz Kafka
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary 'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. Auden This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth ...Show more
The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
110.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries--a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers.Dating from 1909 to 1923, the handwritten diaries contain various kinds of writing: accounts of daily events, reflectio ...Show more