| The Metamorphosis Contributor(s): Kafka, Franz (Author), Corngold, Stanley (Editor), Corngold, Stanley (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0812417496 ISBN-13: 9780812417494 Publisher: Turtleback Books OUR PRICE: $15.47 Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats Published: February 1972 Annotation: A novel about a man who finds himself transformed into a huge insect, and the effects of this change upon his life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1320 |
| Series: Bantam Classics (Pb) |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 4.1" W x 6.7" (0.35 lbs) 194 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 58068 Reading Level: 10.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: " When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, "The Metamorphosis." It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequecy, guilt, and isolation, "The Metamorphosis" has taken its place as one of the mosst widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, " Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man." |