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A Hunger Artist and Other Stories (PB) by Franz Kafka
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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, the stories meditate on art and artists and the human ex ...Show more
America by Franz Kafka
Category: Fiction
The story of Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity, he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange escapades and dizzying adventures.
Amerika by Franz Kafka
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'He had almost forgotten he was in the uncertain hold of a ship moored to the coast of an unknown continent'Karl Rossmann 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 s ...Show more
Amerika by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
Category: Classic Fiction
'He is the greatest German writer of our time' Vladimir Nabakov After an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, sixteen-year-old Karl Rossman is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the land of opportunity, Karl's youthful breeziness propels him into a series ...Show more
Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared by Franz Kafka
Category: Fiction
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 continent. Although Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and ...Show more
Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text by Franz Kafka
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Schocken Kafka Library
Kafka began writing what he had entitled Der Verschollene (The Missing Person) in 1912 and wrote the last completed chapter in 1914. But it wasn t until 1927, three years after his death, that Max Brod, Kafka s friend and literary executor, edited the unfinished manuscript and published it as Amerika. K ...Show more
Aphorisms by Franz Kafka
Category: Philosophy and Religion
For the first time, a single volume that collects all of the aphorisms penned by this universally acclaimed twentieth-century literary figure. Kafka twice wrote aphorisms in his lifetime. The first effort was a series of 109, known as the Zurau Aphorisms, which were written between September 1917 and Ap ...Show more
Castle by Franz Kafka
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Kafka's final novel was written during 1922, when the tuberculosis that was to kill him was already at an advanced stage. Fragmentary and unfinished, it perhaps never could have been finished; perhaps the tensions between K., the Castle and the village, K.'s struggle for acceptance or recognition by the ...Show more
Collected Stories by Franz Kafka
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Franz Kafka's imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their dep ...Show more
Collected Stories by Franz Kafka
Category: Short Stories | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Franz Kafka's imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent t ...Show more
Complete Novels by Franz Kafka
Category: Gaming
A single volume containing Kafka's three novels. "The Trial" is a fusion of nightmare and reality, and "The Castle" a religious allegory. In "America" the innocent Karl Rossman falls gradually but unerringly into a state of often comic degradation.
Dearest Father by Franz Kafka
Category: Biography | Series: Oneworld Classics S.
Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and in this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as a long, tense and dramatic confession in which wr ...Show more