UID:
edocfu_9959240894802883
Format:
1 online resource (195 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-198958-4
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0-19-157986-6
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1-282-33661-4
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9786612336614
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0-19-157050-8
Series Statement:
Oxford world's classics
Uniform Title:
Short stories. Selections
Content:
When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.'With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begins his most famous short story, The Metamorphosis. A commercial traveller is unexpectedly freed from his dreary job by his inexplicable transformation into an insect, which drastically alters his relationship with his family. Kafka considered publishing it with two of the stories included here in a volume to be called Punishments. The Judgement also concerns family tensions, when a power strugglebetw
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Meditation -- The judgement -- The metamorphosis -- In the penal colony -- Letter to his father.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-923855-3
Language:
English
