The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: With Two New Stories

Including his most widely recognized short works, as well as two new stories, this translation of Franz Kafka's writings illuminate one of the century's most controversial writers.

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.

Neugroschel's translation of Kafka's work has made this controversial and monumental writing accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works--including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as The Judgment and The Stoker--now includes two new stories, First Sorrow and The Hunger Artist.

Author: Franz Kafka
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 05/22/2000
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.28w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780684800707
ISBN10: 0684800705
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883, where he lived until his death in 1924. Widely esteemed as one of the twentieth century's most important writers, he is the author of the novels The Trial and The Castle.