Franz Kafka

• 1917
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About the Book "A Report to an Academy" ("Ein Bericht für eine Akademie") is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story ...

• Sep-1989
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From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Trial: Three stories he published in his lifetime, including his best-known tale, “The Metamorphosis.”I have only one request," Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff i...

• Nov-1993
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From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial -- a collection of stories that represent the art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and ...

• Dec-1995
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The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor,...

• Apr-1997
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Students of German language and literature will welcome this dual-language edition of five stories by Franz Kafka (1883�"1924). Considered one of the greatest modern writers, Kafka wrote tales that brilliantly explore the anxiety, futility, and comp...

• Mar-2004
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Originally omitted from Kafka's famous diaries, these notebooks contain some of Kafka's most famous aphorisms

From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in...

• Apr-2009
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Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and in this open letter to his father� -- a letter that was never sent� -- Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Wri...

• May-2009
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In this volume, British artist David Musgrave revisits Franz Kafka's novella Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor, the tale of a man who arrives home one day to find two plastic balls bouncing off the ground of their own accord. To his great irritation, the...

• Jul-2009
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• Feb-2010
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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 tr...

• Mar-2010
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"A Hunger Artist", also translated as "A Fasting Artist" and "A Starvation Artist", is a short story by Franz Kafka published in 1922. The protagonist is an archetype of Kafka, an individual marginalized by society....

• May-2011
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“One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that he had been changed into an adorable kitten.”Thus begins The Meowmorphosis -- a bold, startling, and fuzzy-wuzzy new edition of Kafka’s classic nightmare t...

• Sep-2011
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About the Book A Country Doctor (German: Ein Landarzt) is a short story written in 1919 by Franz Kafka. It was first published in the collection of short stories of the same title. The plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick...

• May-2012
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This volume collects all the texts from Franz Kafka's literary remains that originated in the period up until Autumn 1917, with the exception of the two novels The Man Who Disappeared (Kafka's original title for Amerika) and The Trial, plus the mater...

• Jun-2012
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This new translation includes Kafka's two published collections, A Country Doctor and A Hunger Artist with other, uncollected stories, aphorisms, and parables that have become part of the Kafka canon. Enigmatic, satirical, often bleakly humorous,...

• Dec-2012
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Though most eBooks are simple conversions of paper books, "The eNotated A Hunger Artist” is a completely new approach that takes advantage of ebook technology by providing eNotations (electronic annotations), essays, and background information conv...

• Nov-2013
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"In the Penal Colony" ("In der Strafkolonie") (also translated as "In the Penal Settlement") is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published in October 1919. The story is set in an unna...

• Nov-2013
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Excerpt-Two boys were sitting on the wall by the jetty playing dice. A man was reading a newspaper on the steps of a monument in the shadow of a hero wielding a sabre. A young girl was filling her tub with water at a fountain. A fruit seller was lyin...

• Aug-2014
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• Sep-2014
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" First Sorrow" is a short story by Franz Kafka. Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 �" 3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories, regarded by critics as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Most of his works, su...

• Aug-2024
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A stylish hardback journal decorated with Franz Kafka’s illustrations. Although he died before he reached the age of forty-one, Franz Kafka’s groundbreaking work has left a profound cultural legacy and continues to influence writers and a...

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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 cont...

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Franz Kafka's diaries and letters suggest that his fascination with America grew out of a desire to break away from his native Prague, even if only in his imagination. Kafka died before he could finish what he like to call his "American novel: but he...

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A surreal work of psychological horror, Franz Kafka's The Castle is translated by J. A. Underwood with an introduction by Idris Parry in Penguin Modern Classics. The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to...

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This volume contains the major short works left by Kafka and published posthumously, including "Blumfeld", "An Elderly Bachelor", "The Great Wall of China", "Investigations of a Dog", "The Collected Aphorisms" and "He: Aphorisms from the 1920 Diary"....

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A collection of all the stories published in volume form during Kafka's lifetime. This new translation offers the atmosphere of Kafka's dark universe as reflected in the commanding presence of his language. Borges argues, in his foreword, that Kafka'...

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This volume contains the major short works left by Kafka, including Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor, The Great Wall of China and Investigations of a Dog, together with The Collected Aphorisms and He: Aphorisms from the 1920 Diary....

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In 1945, W. H. Auden remarked that Kafka stands in the same relation to his century as Shakespeare does to his―Kafka is the representative of the twentieth century, the poet who gives it its voice.

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Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he makes his way into the interior of the continent. Like Kafka's other great novels, t...

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Part of the Legend Classics seriesAs Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.The Metamorphosis - the masterpiece of Franz Kafka - was first published in 1915 and is one of ...

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A companion volume to The Great Wall of China and Other Short Works, these new translations bring together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. This volume contains his most famous story. The Transformation, mo...

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2013 Reprint of 1958 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This work is the only longer piece from Kafka's early period. It is the only worked that he cared to "finish," in the established...

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Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can...