The Metamorphosis

Author: Franz Kafka

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.”As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt….Read More

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