Metamorphosis
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Published: 2022
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780241573730
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One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach. Metamorphosis, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, is one of the twentieth century's most influential works of fiction, and is accompanied here by two more classic stories.

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