The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

by Franz Kafka

Book Overview

It is one of the most memorable first lines in all of literature: "When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin." So begins Kafka's famous short story, The Metamorphosis. Kafka considered publishing it with two of the stories included here in a volume to be called Punishments. The Judgment explores an enigmatic power struggle between a father and son, while In the Penal Colony...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199238553
• ISBN13: 9780199238552
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.6"