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The Metamorphosis
Contributor(s): Kafka, Franz (Author), Corngold, Stanley (Translator)

ISBN: 0553213695 ISBN-13: 9780553213690
Publisher: Bantam Classics

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Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 1972
Annotation: "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, "The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequecy, guilt, and isolation, "The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the mosst widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Psychological

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 00003440

Lexile Measure: 1340(Not Available)

Series: Bantam Classics

Physical Information: 0.51" H x 4.36" W x 6.94" L (0.24 lbs) 224 pages

Features: Ikids, Price on Product

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 58068
Reading Level: 10.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0

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Publisher Description:
"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."

With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing--though absurdly comic--meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction.

As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

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