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1	Metamorphosis more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist This is a graphic novel adaptation of Kafka's immortal absurdist tale of Gregor Samsa, who wakes up to find he has been transformed into a cockroach. The black-and-white scratchboard, woodcut-like drawings point up the physical resemblance between Gregor-as-human and Gregor-as-cockroach, and illustrate how the overwhelming pressures and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Complete Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka's stories--bleak, painfully comic, enigmatic--are invariably about man's alienation from daily life, but he creates a rich variety of worlds, from the absurdity of the hunger artist in his cage, to Gregor Samsa's vividly imagined transformation into a cockroach, to the profoundly ironic view of capital punishment in "The Penal Colony." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.77! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Metamorphosis and Other Stories_abridged more books like this by Franz Kafka, Stanley Appelbaum (Translator) add to wishlist Excellent new English translations of title story (considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work), plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor," and "A Report to an Academy." Note. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Vertigo more books like this by W. G. Sebald add to wishlist Sebald's first (and autobiographical) novel is about a disturbed man who is obsessed with the literary giants of the past. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $9.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Metamorphosis And Other Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka's immortal absurdist tale of Gregor Samsa, who wakes up to find he has been transformed into a cockroach. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka, Edwin Muir (Translator), Willa Muir (Translator) add to wishlist Kafka's stories--bleak, painfully comic, enigmatic--are invariably about man's alienation from daily life, but he creates a rich variety of worlds, from the absurdity of the hunger artist in his cage, to Gregor Samsa's vividly imagined transformation into a cockroach, to the profoundly ironic view of capital punishment in "In the Penal Colony." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The basic Kafka more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Published together for the first time are selections from all Kafka's writings: The Metamorphosis, Josephine The Singer, plus his short stories, parables, and his personal diaries and letters. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	A Country Doctor more books like this by Franz Kafka, Kevin Blahut (Translator) add to wishlist A Country Doctor is the third such volume of Kafka's stories published by Prague's Twisted Spoon Press, following A HUNGER ARTIST and CONTEMPLATION. It includes 15 stories and sketches, included the famed parable "Before the Law, " "Jackals and Arabs, " "A Fratricide" and "A Report from an Academy" among them. ImPorted from the Czech Republic. see all copies from $6.35! new only from $44.08! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Cambridge Companion to Kafka more books like this by Julian Preece (Editor) add to wishlist Franz Kafka's writing has had a wide-reaching influence on European literature, culture and thought. The Cambridge Companion to Kafka, offers a comprehensive account of his life and work, providing a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist. Contributions cover all the key texts, and discuss Kafka's writing in ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $18.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: With Two New Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator) add to wishlist Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, "The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories" has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work ... see all copies from $3.08! new only from $5.38! \| SVS
11 view cover	Kafka more books like this by David Mairowitz, Robert Crumb, Richard Appignanesi (Editor) add to wishlist A wonderful educational tool for those unfamiliar with Kafka, this volume includes a brief but inclusive biography as well as the plots of many of his works, all illustrated by Crumb, making this newly designed edition a must-have for admirers of both Kafka and Crumb. Young Adult. see all copies from $8.64! new only from $9.37!
12	Metamorphoses and Other Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka's stories--bleak, painfully comic, enigmatic--are invariably about man's alienation from daily life, but he creates a rich variety of worlds, from the absurdity of the hunger artist in his cage, to Gregor Samsa's vividly imagined transformation into a cockroach, to the profoundly ironic view of capital punishment in "In the Penal Colony." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| SVS
13 view cover	Introducing Kafka more books like this by David Zane Mairowitz, Robert Crumb (Illustrator) add to wishlist "What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself". Nothing could better express the essence of Franz Kafka, a man described by his friends as living behind a "glass wall". Kafka wrote in the tradition of the great Yiddish storytellers, whose stock-in-trade was bizarre fantasy, tainted with hilarity and self ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.77! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Best Short Stories: A Dual-Language Book more books like this by Franz Kafka, Stanley Appelbaum (Editor) add to wishlist Five great stories in original German with new, literal English translations on facing pages: "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." see all copies from $5.75! new only from $6.12!
15 view cover	The sons more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Grouped together under this new title and in newly revised translations, these stories ("The Stoker", "The Metamorphosis" and "The Judgment") take on fresh, compelling meaning. Includes his famous "Letter to his Father". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.58! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Kafka's Selected Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka, Professor Stanley Corngold (Translator) add to wishlist This Norton Critical Edition is based on new translations by leading Kafka scholar Stanley Corngold. Twenty-nine stories are included, accompanied by detailed annotations. Extracts from his letters, diaries and conversations offer a glimpse of Kafka's creative process, and ten critical essays on the major stories are collected from a wide range of ... see all copies from $13.05! new only from $13.05! \| SVS
17 view cover	Letters to Milena more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his work into Czech. Due to their deep attachment, he revealed his diaries, and thus his feelings to her. Although her "genius for living" gave Kafka new life, the relationship came to an end after only two years. see all copies from $7.00! first editions
18 view cover	The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Ward Six and Other Stories is a broad sample of Chekhov's narrative genius. The work has been viewed as a symbol for the bureaucratic quagmire of czarist and Stalinist Russia. It is also a universal comment on the person versus the state. Ward Six is a hauntingly symbolic depiction of the world of an insane asylum, an upside-down world where ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.12! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Kafka: A Very Short Introduction more books like this by Professor Ritchie Robertson add to wishlist "When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect..." So begins Franz Kafka's most famous story "Metamorphosis". Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the twentieth century. During his lifetime, he worked as a civil servant and ... see all copies from $7.27! new only from $7.27!
20 view cover	Franz Kafka more books like this by Jeremy Adler add to wishlist "Penguin Illustrated Lives" is a series of photographic biographies that offers a fresh, intimate portrait of some of our favourite writers. An incisive, lively text is accompanied by over 100 evocative images, many in colour and some previously unpublished, which depict the author's world - family, friends and artistic circle together with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.78! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The diaries of Franz Kafka more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka's diaries cover the period from 1910 to 1923 and reveal the inner world in which he lived. He describes his fear, isolation and frustration, his feelings of guilt and his sense of being an outcast. He also describes the father he worshipped and the woman he could not bring himself to marry. see all copies from $4.91! new only from $10.36! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Metamorphosis: Great Books Edition more books like this by Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (Translator) add to wishlist Startling and bizarre, Kafka's masterpiece tells the story of a young man who becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, and a quintessentially alienated man. Part of Penguin's Great Books of the 20th Century series. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature more books like this by Professor Gilles Deleuze add to wishlist see all copies from $8.99! new only from $18.19! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Kafka more books like this by Klaus Wagenbach, Ewald Osers (Translator), Professor Ritchie Robertson (Introduction by) add to wishlist In Kafka's writing, Albert Camus tells us, we travel "to the limits of human thought." And in this book, the world's leading Kafka authority conducts us to the deepest reaches of Kafka's own troubled psyche, to reveal the inner workings of the man who gave his name to a central facet of modern experience, the Kafkaesque. Klaus Wagenbach, who wrote ... see all copies from $12.01! new only from $21.08!
25	Diaries of Franz Kafka more books like this by Max Brod (Editor), Franz Kafka, Martin Harry Greenberg (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.95! \| first editions

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