The Metamorphoses
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 ‘Metamorphoses’ and the other famous stories included here, Kafka explores the confusing nature of human experience with sly wit and compelling originality.
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One of the founding texts of Western literature, the Metamorphoses is nevertheless anything but earnest or off-putting. Ovid's sequence of fifteen witty and playful poems sketches the history of the world from its creation to the poet's own time through a series of transformation myths in which gods and goddesses succumb to all-too-human passions, not least in the matter of love. Frequently translated, imitated and paraphrased.
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| Weight | 604 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 211 × 135 × 30 mm |
| Author | |
| Publisher | Everyman |
| Imprint | Everyman |
| Cover | Hardback |
| Pages | xxv, 539 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | |
| Dewey | 833.912 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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