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1	Metamorphosis more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist This is a graphic novel adaptation of Kafka's immortal absurdist tale of Gregor Samsa, who wakes up to find he has been transformed into a cockroach. The black-and-white scratchboard, woodcut-like drawings point up the physical resemblance between Gregor-as-human and Gregor-as-cockroach, and illustrate how the overwhelming pressures and ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Complete Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka's stories--bleak, painfully comic, enigmatic--are invariably about man's alienation from daily life, but he creates a rich variety of worlds, from the absurdity of the hunger artist in his cage, to Gregor Samsa's vividly imagined transformation into a cockroach, to the profoundly ironic view of capital punishment in "The Penal Colony." see all copies from £6.04! new only from £7.89! \| first editions
3	The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text more books like this by Franz Kafka, Breon Mitchell (Translator) add to wishlist Kafka's exploration of the psychological terror inherent in everyday life is both allegorical and stunningly realistic. A bank employee named Joseph K. is accused of a crime he not only did not commit but doesn't even understand. He is released, but thereafter enslaved to a legal system that requires him to continue to go to court to defend his ... see all copies from £5.86! new only from £6.17! \| first editions
4	The Metamorphosis and Other Stories_abridged more books like this by Franz Kafka, Stanley Appelbaum (Translator) add to wishlist Excellent new English translations of title story (considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work), plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor," and "A Report to an Academy." Note. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
5	Trial more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka's exploration of the psychological terror inherent in everyday life is both allegorical and stunningly realistic. A bank employee named Joseph K. is accused of a crime he not only did not commit but doesn't even understand. He is released, but thereafter enslaved to a legal system that requires him to continue to go to court to defend his ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text more books like this by Franz Kafka, Mark Harmon (Translator) add to wishlist Published posthumously, Kafka's novel--a major modernist/symbolist work--is about a surveyor, known only as K., who struggles with an absurd, implacable bureaucracy in an attempt to penetrate a dimly defined "castle." The characters in Kafka's allegory inhabit a strange world, comic and dreamlike, that has come to be known as "Kafkaesque." see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.81! \| first editions
7	Metamorphosis And Other Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka's immortal absurdist tale of Gregor Samsa, who wakes up to find he has been transformed into a cockroach. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.88! \| first editions
8	Castle more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Published posthumously, Kafka's novel--a major modernist/symbolist work--is about a surveyor, known only as K., who struggles with an absurd, implacable bureaucracy in an attempt to penetrate a dimly defined "castle." The characters in Kafka's allegory inhabit a strange world, comic and dreamlike, that has come to be known as "Kafkaesque." see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.05! \| first editions
9	The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka, Edwin Muir (Translator), Willa Muir (Translator) add to wishlist Kafka's stories--bleak, painfully comic, enigmatic--are invariably about man's alienation from daily life, but he creates a rich variety of worlds, from the absurdity of the hunger artist in his cage, to Gregor Samsa's vividly imagined transformation into a cockroach, to the profoundly ironic view of capital punishment in "In the Penal Colony." see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.02! \| first editions
10	Lekt¿Rehilfen Der Proce¿ (Der Prozess) by Thomas Gr¿Ff add to wishlist see all copies from £15.36! new only from £15.36!
11	The basic Kafka more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Published together for the first time are selections from all Kafka's writings: The Metamorphosis, Josephine The Singer, plus his short stories, parables, and his personal diaries and letters. see all copies from £2.93! new only from £2.93! \| first editions
12 view cover	Amerika more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Although Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished), can be read as a menacing ... see all copies from £1.50! new only from £4.73! \| first editions
13 view cover	A Country Doctor more books like this by Franz Kafka, Kevin Blahut (Translator) add to wishlist A Country Doctor is the third such volume of Kafka's stories published by Prague's Twisted Spoon Press, following A HUNGER ARTIST and CONTEMPLATION. It includes 15 stories and sketches, included the famed parable "Before the Law, " "Jackals and Arabs, " "A Fratricide" and "A Report from an Academy" among them. ImPorted from the Czech Republic. see all copies from £5.39! new only from £5.39! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: With Two New Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.61!
15	Metamorphoses and Other Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka's stories--bleak, painfully comic, enigmatic--are invariably about man's alienation from daily life, but he creates a rich variety of worlds, from the absurdity of the hunger artist in his cage, to Gregor Samsa's vividly imagined transformation into a cockroach, to the profoundly ironic view of capital punishment in "In the Penal Colony." see all copies from £4.98! new only from £5.92!
16 view cover	Best Short Stories: A Dual-Language Book more books like this by Franz Kafka, Stanley Appelbaum (Editor) add to wishlist Five great stories in original German with new, literal English translations on facing pages: "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." see all copies from £4.60! new only from £4.60!
17 view cover	Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared more books like this by Franz Kafka, Michael Hofmann (Translator) add to wishlist Kafka's first novel is the picaresque comic tale of a young man who disgraces himself in a sexual fiasco and is sent away to Amerika by his embarrassed parents--a fantastical Amerika that existed only in Kafka's imagination. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.35! \| first editions
18 view cover	The sons more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Grouped together under this new title and in newly revised translations, these stories ("The Stoker", "The Metamorphosis" and "The Judgment") take on fresh, compelling meaning. Includes his famous "Letter to his Father". see all copies from £4.80! new only from £4.80! \| first editions
19 view cover	Kafka's Selected Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka, Professor Stanley Corngold (Translator) add to wishlist This Norton Critical Edition is based on new translations by leading Kafka scholar Stanley Corngold. Twenty-nine stories are included, accompanied by detailed annotations. Extracts from his letters, diaries and conversations offer a glimpse of Kafka's creative process, and ten critical essays on the major stories are collected from a wide range of ... see all copies from £6.73! new only from £6.73!
20 view cover	Letters to Milena more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his work into Czech. Due to their deep attachment, he revealed his diaries, and thus his feelings to her. Although her "genius for living" gave Kafka new life, the relationship came to an end after only two years. see all copies from £8.73! first editions
21 view cover	The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Ward Six and Other Stories is a broad sample of Chekhov's narrative genius. The work has been viewed as a symbol for the bureaucratic quagmire of czarist and Stalinist Russia. It is also a universal comment on the person versus the state. Ward Six is a hauntingly symbolic depiction of the world of an insane asylum, an upside-down world where ... see all copies from £2.57! new only from £24.38! \| first editions
22 view cover	The diaries of Franz Kafka more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka's diaries cover the period from 1910 to 1923 and reveal the inner world in which he lived. He describes his fear, isolation and frustration, his feelings of guilt and his sense of being an outcast. He also describes the father he worshipped and the woman he could not bring himself to marry. see all copies from £6.86! new only from £8.30! \| first editions
23	Kafka/The Trial by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka's exploration of the psychological terror inherent in everyday life is both allegorical and stunningly realistic. A bank employee named Joseph K. is accused of a crime he not only did not commit but doesn't even understand. He is released, but thereafter enslaved to a legal system that requires him to continue to go to court to defend his ... see all copies from £4.98! first editions
24 view cover	The Metamorphosis: Great Books Edition more books like this by Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (Translator) add to wishlist Startling and bizarre, Kafka's masterpiece tells the story of a young man who becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, and a quintessentially alienated man. Part of Penguin's Great Books of the 20th Century series. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.85! \| first editions
25 view cover	Great, Wall of China and Other Short Works more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Drawing directly on original manuscripts, this collection comprises the major short stories published after Kafka's death. It includes "The Great Wall of China", "Blumfeld", "An Elderly Bachelor", "Investigations of a Dog" and his great sequences of aphorisms, with fables and parables on subjects ranging from the legend of Prometheus to the Tower ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.47! \| first editions

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