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A splendid Del Prado miniature of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". This is a scarce title from the expertly-bound Miniature Classics Library by Del Prado. There are 101 volumes in the complete set. Books are 332 to 640 pages in length, and nearly 55,000 pages in the set. All books feature professionally Smyth-sewn bindings and measure approximately 2" x 2.5" each. Most measure 1" or thicker. Text blocks are printed in black with red page numbers and highlights. Other titles include: Beowulf, Aesop's Fables, Divine Comedy (in 3 volumes), Adventures of Peter Pan, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Canterbury Tales (in 3 volumes), Silas Marner (in 2 volumes), Taras Bulba, Scarlet Letter (in 2 volumes), Homer's Odyssey (in 2 volumes), Irving's Alhambra (in 2 volumes), Kafka's Metamorphosis, Endymion (in 2 volumes), Jungle Book, Utopia, Ovid's Heroides, Pascal's Thoughts (in 2 volumes), Petrarch's Canzoniere (in 2 volumes), Poe's House of Usher, Scott's Bride of Lammermoor (in 2 volumes), Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Pigmalion, Frankenstein (in 2 volumes), Oedipus Rex, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, Gulliver's Travels, Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych, Prince & the Pauper (in 2 volumes), Verne's Round the Moon, Virgil's Bucolics, Voltaire's Candide, William Tell, Wells' Time Machine, Leaves of Grass (in 2 volumes), Importance of Being Earnest, and more. Books of poetry include those by Coleridge, Dickenson, Donne, Rossetti, Rilke, and Wordsworth.

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] ''One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.'' With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young traveling salesman who, transformed overnight into a giant, beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves. 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.''

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Samsa's transformation is never revealed, and Kafka himself never gave an explanation. The rest of Kafka's novella deals with Gregor's attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repulsed by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become.

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The Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the most famous of Kafka's works, along with The Trial and The Castle. The story begins when a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. Curiously, his condition does not arouse surprise in his family, who merely despise it as an impending burden. As with all of Kafka's works, The Metamorphosis is open to a wide range of interpretations. Most obvious are themes relating to society's treatment of those who are different, the loneliness of isolation, and the absurdity of the human condition.

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The Metamorphosis is the most famous of Kafka's works. A story of traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. The Metamorphosis is open to a wide range of interpretations most obvious are themes relating to society's treatment of those who are different, the loneliness of isolation. Franz Kafka was a German author of novels and short stories. Critics regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century. Kafka's writing attracted little attention until after his death. He published a few short stories, finished the novella The Metamorphosis, but never finished any of his full length novels.

''One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.'' With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young traveling salesman who, transformed overnight into a giant, beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves. 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.''

"The Metamorphosis" is a short novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect. Nobel Peace Prize winner Elias Canetti described it as "one of the few great and perfect works of the poetic imagination written..."