Franklin Library: FRANZ KAFKA: COMPLETE STORIES: METAMORPHOSIS: PRAGUE: CZECH

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Franz Kafka's "The Complete Stories," a Limited edition, Illustrated by Will Harmuth, edited by Nahum N. Glatzer, one of the COLLECTED STORIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS series, published in 1980. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has green moire silk end leaves, satin book marker, acd-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in Near FINE condition---except for 'minor' specs on top gilt. Franz Kafka, who lived from 1883-1924, was a Jewish citizen of Prague, in the Czech Republic. Stories include: "Wedding Preparations in the Country," "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor," "A Report to an Academy," "The Great Wall of China," "A Little Woman," "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folks," "The Village Schoolmaster," "The Hunter Gracchus," "Poseidon," "The Helmsman," "Unmasking a Confidence Trickster," "Absent-minded Window-gazing," "Jackals and Arabs," "The Knock at the Manor Gate," "Eleven Sons," "The Vulture," and my favorite: "The Metamorphosis," the story of Gregor Samsa who wakes up one morning from an uneasy dream and fins he has been transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. His parents are irritated because Gregor is the breadwinner. The mother and father are mean to Gregor. His sister, Grete, is the only kind family member; the boarders the family keep become suspicious---especially after the apple thrown in Gregor's back becomes rotten. Le Monde's has listed Kafka's books in the 100 Best Books of the Century and he is listed as No. 2 of the Best German writers of the Twentieth Century. 387 pages---a VERY RARE title! I offer Combined shipping.

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