Metamorphosis (Arcturus Silhouette Classics) (Enriched Classics) (Best Novel, #21)

by Franz Kafka

Michael Hofmann (Introduction)

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Waking after a night of troubled dreams, Gregor is surprised to find himself trapped in the body of a hideous man-sized bug. As he lies on his shell and gazes into space, his mother and father begin calling to him from outside his bedroom door. He must get out of bed, they tell him. He has to go to work. They need his money to live.

Gregor replies to them nervously, his voice sounding strange to his ears.

He'll be out very soon, he says. He's just getting ready...

But he can't keep saying that forever.
  • ISBN10 0141023457
  • ISBN13 9780141023458
  • Publish Date 26 January 2006 (first published 1 January 1915)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 14 January 2007
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 112
  • Language English