Metamorphosis
By Franz Kafka
- Release Date: 2015-01-13
- Genre: Literary Fiction
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This edition of The Metamorphosis has been lovingly reproduced to take advantage of iPad technology. It’s layout is clean and contemporary, with a 16pt Georgia font, and 1.5 line-spacing. This is the copy you buy for modern website style reading.
About the story:
The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Samsa's transformation is never revealed, and Kafka himself never gave an explanation. The rest of Kafka's novella deals with Gregor's attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repulsed by the horrible,verminous creature Gregor has become.
