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by Franz Kafka (Author)
From 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 into an insect.
To Max Brod, his literary executor, Kafka wrote: "Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these."
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The best-known novellas and stories of one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century. Included are "The Judgment," "A Country Doctor," and "A Hunger Artist." New Foreword by Anne Rice.
Author Biography
FRANZ KAFKA was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," and "The Stoker." He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.
