The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stories: the Great Short Works of Franz Kafka
โ Scribed by Franz Kafka
- Publisher
- Touchstone;Scribner
- Year
- 2000;2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 150 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as "The Judgment" and "The Stoker" -- now includes two new stories, "First Sorrow" and "The Hunger Artist."
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