Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith
One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach. Metamorphosis, Kafka’s masterpiece of unease and black humour, is one of the twentieth century’s most influential works of fiction, and is accompanied here by two more classic stories.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 144
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publication date: 25/08/2022
Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
Review by Sam
My favourite short story/novella of all time. Brilliant atmosphere and symbolism which elicits the alienation that is so important in Kafka’s works. Read with particular attention to the context of rising industrialism and European antisemitism in 1915.
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