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Amerika by Franz Kafka
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'He had almost forgotten he was in the uncertain hold of a ship moored to the coast of an unknown continent'Karl Rossmann has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he s ...Show more
Essential Kafka by FRANZ KAFKA
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a ...Show more
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
$2.50 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Kafka's most famous stories, including Metamorphosis, Investigations of a Dog and In the Penal Settlement.
Metamorphosis: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
$12.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the ...Show more
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
$22.95 AUD
Category: General
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, writ ...Show more
The Castle by Franz Kafka
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics
The story of K and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K's Isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers, epitomises Kafka's vis ...Show more
The Castle by Franz Kafka
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
The protagonist, known only as K., arrives in a mountain village buried under deep snows in the middle of winter, with the looming, titular, castle above it shrouded in mist. Attempting to gain contact with the inhabitants of the castle, the officials who run the bureacracy that governs the village, K. ...Show more
The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
$110.00 AUD
Category: Biography
An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries--a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers.Dating from 1909 to 1923, the handwritten diaries contain various kinds of writing: accounts of daily events, reflectio ...Show more
The Lost Writings by Franz Kafka; Reiner Stach (Editor); Michael Hofmann (translator)
$31.95 AUD
Category: General
Unearthed by the master Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, this small collection comes as a prize and a joy. Some stories are several pages long; some run about a page; a handful are only a few lines long. Even the most fragmentary texts are revelat ...Show more
The Man Who Disappeared (America) by Franz Kafka
$18.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Young immigrant Karl Rossmann has a series of adventures in a vision of an ultra-modern America that is both fantasy and social satire. Full of incident, and blackly humorous, Kafka's first novel is newly translated by Ritchie Robertson in an edition that includes a full introduction and notes.
The Trial by Franz Kafka
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Trial (original German title: Der Process,later Der Prozess, Der Proceß and Der Prozeß) is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of ...Show more