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The MetamorphosisOften cited as one of the most influential works of short fiction of the 20th century, Metamorphosis is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. Nobel Peace Prize winner Elias Canetti described it as "one of the few great and perfect...
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The MetamorphosisAwaken to the absurd and haunting world of Franz Kafka with this striking deluxe edition of The Metamorphosis. One of the most iconic works of twentieth-century literature, The Metamorphosis tells the surreal and unsettling story of Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman who wakes one...
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The Metamorphosis & Other StoriesFranz Kafka's bizarrely comedic meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation expressed through the story of a man who is transformed overnight into a giant beetle, now repackaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre. Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa...
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The Metamorphosis (Translated by David Wyllie)"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself." -Gregor Samsa, The MetamorphosisThe Metamorphosisis one of the most commonly referenced books when you talk about absurd literature. It is heralded as...
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The Metamorphosis and Other StoriesSince his death in 1924, Kafka has come to be regarded as one of the greatest modern writers, one whose work brilliantly explores the anxiety, futility, and complexity of modern life. The precision and clarity of Kafka's style, its powerful symbolism, and his existential...
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The Metamorphosis and Other StoriesIt is one of the most memorable first lines in all of literature: "When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin." So begins Kafka's famous short story, The Metamorphosis. Kafka considered publishing it...
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The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: With Two New Stories"In Neugroschel's version we see more of Kafka's meaning, his unexpected comedy...we have for the first time the sense of understanding Kafka's complexity and where it might lead us." --Chicago Tribune A classic translation of Kafka's best-known, and most obscure, short fiction--with a new...
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The Metamorphosis: And Other StoriesFrom one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial A collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed...
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The Metamorphosis: Franz Kafka"Metamorphosis" is a novella by Franz Kafka, initially published in 1915. It tells the story of a man named Gregor Samsa who wakes up one day to find himself transformed into a large insect-like creature. As Gregor struggles to come to terms with his...
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The Metamorphosis: Franz KafkaAs Gregor Samsa awoke one morning, fromrestless dreams he found himself recast in hisbed into a gigantic insect.He was laying on his hard, as it werearmour-plated, back and when he raised hishead a little he could see his domelike browntummy separated into stiff arched...
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The Midwich CuckoosA genre-defining tale of first contact by one of the twentieth century's most brilliant--and neglected--science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called "the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.""In my opinion, [John] Wyndham's chef d'oeuvre . . . a...
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The Mill on the FlossDrawing on George Eliot's own childhood experiences to craft an unforgettable story of first love, sibling rivalry and regret, The Mill on the Floss is edited with an introduction and notes by A.S. Byatt, author of Possession, in Penguin Classics. Brought up at Dorlcote...
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The Mill on the Floss'Was her life to be always like this? - always bringing some new source of inward strife?' When the miller Mr Tulliver becomes entangled in lawsuits, he sets off a chain of events that will profoundly affect the lives of his family and bring...
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The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainment"A master thriller and a remarkable portrait of a twisted character." --Time For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fête was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the Blitz and the aching guilt of having mercifully...
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The Monk'Few could sustain the glance of his eye, at once fiery and penetrating'Savaged by critics for its supposed profanity and obscenity, and bought in large numbers by readers eager to see whether it lived up to its lurid reputation, The Monk became a succès...
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The MonkWhen Matthew Lewis's The Monk was published in 1796, readers were shocked by this gripping and horrific novel. Lewis's story, which drove the House of Commons--of which he was a member--to deem him licentious and perverse, follows the abbot Ambrosio as he is tempted...
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The Monkey Wrench Gang [50th Anniversary Edition]"A thing of beauty. . . . A wildly funny, infinitely wise, near to tragic tale of man against the bog god machine." --Houston ChronicleA special 50th anniversary edition of Edward Abbey's classic tale of rebellion, camaraderie, and environmental justice--a prescient, comic masterpiece of...
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The Moon and SixpenceOne of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maugham's reputation as a literary master The Moon and Sixpence follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he abandons his...
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The Moon Is a Harsh MistressFor fans of Artemis--the visionary tour de force from "one of the grand masters of science fiction" (The Wall Street Journal). Widely acknowledged as one of Robert A. Heinlein's greatest works, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress rose from the golden age of science...
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The Moon is DownOccupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside--and betrayal born within the close-knit community A Penguin Classic In this masterful tale set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both...
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