The Penal Colony (Transaction Large Print Books) - Hardcover

Kafka, Franz

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9781560004769: The Penal Colony (Transaction Large Print Books)

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ISBN 10: 1560004762 ISBN 13: 9781560004769

Publisher: Transaction Pub Large Print, 2000

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This collection brings together all the stories Kafka allowed to be published during his lifetime. Those titles include Meditation, The Metamorphosis, The Country Doctor and In the Penal Colony.

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About the Author:

Franz Kafka was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. A middle-class Jew based in Prague, his unique body of writing — many incomplete and most published posthumously — has become amongst the most influential in Western literature.

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"Had one to name the artist who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age that Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka is the first one would think of. . . . Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

—W. H. Auden

"I cannot say what I admire more, the naturalistic presentation of an imaginary world, rendered believable through a minute precision of the images, or the daring turn to the mysterious."

—Andre Gide

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