The Classic Collection of Franz Kafka. Novellas and Stories
The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, Jackals and Arabs, Hunger Artist, a Country Doctor and Others
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"The Classic Collection of Franz Kafka. Novellas and Stories" brings together a selection of extraordinary works by Franz Kafka, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. This collection showcases Kafka's unique literary style and his exploration of existential themes, alienation, and the human condition.
"The Metamorphosis" is a haunting novella that follows the bizarre transformation of Gregor Samsa into a giant insect, exploring themes of identity, isolation, and the absurdity of human existence. In "In the Penal Colony," Kafka delves into themes of justice, punishment, and the dehumanizing effects of institutional power.
"Jackals and Arabs" examines the complexities of power dynamics and cultural clashes, while "The Hunger Artist" delves into themes of self-denial, artistic suffering, and the pursuit of meaning. "A Country Doctor" depicts the struggles and ethical dilemmas faced by a doctor in a small village, merging the ordinary with the surreal.
Kafka's works are characterized by their introspective and unsettling atmosphere, intricate symbolism, and a sense of unease that pervades his narratives. His writing explores the depths of the human psyche and confronts the readers with the absurdities and uncertainties of existence.
"The Classic Collection of Franz Kafka" is an essential read for lovers of literary fiction and those interested in exploring the complexities of human nature. Kafka's stories continue to captivate readers with their enigmatic narratives, thought-provoking themes, and their ability to evoke a profound sense of introspection and contemplation.
Contents:
The Metamorphosis
In the Penal Colony
Jackals and Arabs
Hunger Artist
Before the Law
An Imperial Message
A Country Doctor
A Report for an Academy
The Judgement
The Hunter Gracchus
Rejection
Children on a Country Road
The Way Home
Unhappiness
Unmasking a Confidence Trickster
On the Tram
Josephine the Songstress
The Great Wall of China
Up in the Gallery
Absent-Minded Window-Gazing
Clothes
The Tradesman
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- Duración: 51 m
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Lotte Lenya reads "Up In The Gallery", "The Cares of a Family Man", "The Bucket Rider", "A Hunger Artist", and "A Fratricide."
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2 out of 5 stars
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Grandiloquent
- De Camilo en 07-31-11
De: Franz Kafka
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Franz Kafka: The Trial, Metamorphosis, Amerika & more
- A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama collection
- De: Franz Kafka
- Narrado por: David Tennant, Miriam Margolyes, Tom Basden, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
- Grabación Original
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By day Franz Kafka worked as a lawyer for an insurance company, but he spent his nights writing visionary stories and novels exploring bureaucracy, power and alienation – iconic fiction that gave the world the adjective ‘Kafkaesque’. This BBC anthology showcases his most famous works, dealing with ordinary men caught up in impossible situations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Kafka Collection
- De Nati Yakobovich en 10-31-24
De: Franz Kafka
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The Trial
- Penguin Classics
- De: Franz Kafka, Idris Parry
- Narrado por: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 11
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A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life - including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door - becomes increasingly unpredictable.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Could not get into story
- De Norm Hagen en 06-05-25
De: Franz Kafka, y otros
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The Castle
- De: Franz Kafka
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Howard
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 78
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The story of K - the unwanted land surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle and yet cannot go home - seems to depict, like a dream from the deepest recesses of consciousness, an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. A perpetual human condition lies at the heart of this labyrinthine world: dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, reason and nonsense, harmony and disintegration.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful reading (but will strange interruptions)
- De Stephen en 12-19-12
De: Franz Kafka
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Metamorphosis
- A BBC Radio 4 Reading
- De: Franz Kafka
- Narrado por: Benedict Cumberbatch
- Duración: 1 h y 38 m
- Versión resumida
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Benedict Cumberbatch reads the enduring classic of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. He attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repelled by the horrible creature he has become. First published in 1915, Kafka's darkly comic novella explores concepts such as the absurdity of life, alienation and the disconnect between mind and body.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- De Jonas Jones en 03-05-19
De: Franz Kafka
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The Trial
- De: Franz Kafka
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 845
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If Max Brod had obeyed Franz Kafka's dying request, Kafka's unpublished manuscripts would have been burned, unread. Fortunately, Brod ignored his friend's wishes and published The Trial, which became the author's most famous work. Now Kafka's enigmatic novel regains its humor and stylistic elegance in a new translation based on the restored original manuscript.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We are all the straw that breaks a camel's back
- De Dan Harlow en 10-14-13
De: Franz Kafka
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The Metamorphosis
- A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky
- De: Franz Kafka, Susan Bernofsky - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Victor Bevine, Christa Lewis
- Duración: 2 h y 33 m
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Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury, while continuing to unsettle millions of readers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mysterious and beautiful
- De Tad Davis en 05-02-15
De: Franz Kafka, y otros
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The Fyodor Dostoyevsky Complete Collection
- The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; Notes from the Underground; The Demons; Novellas; Complete Short Stories; Essays; and Letters
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrado por: David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble, Malk Williams, y otros
- Duración: 266 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevky's greatest works: 15 novels and novellas, 18 short stories, a short study of Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf, and two books of non-fiction - his Letters and European travel journal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Crucial Human Journey
- De O. en 04-07-24
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The Metamorphosis
- De: Franz Kafka
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 2 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,547
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,058
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“One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.” With this startlingly bizarre sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young traveling salesman who, transformed overnight into a giant, beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Written in 1915
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 09-04-12
De: Franz Kafka
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The Castle
- De: Franz Kafka
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 279
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On his deathbed, Franz Kafka asked that all his unpublished manuscripts be burned. Fortunately, his request was ignored, allowing such works as The Trial to earn recognition among the literary masterpieces of the 20th century. This brilliant new translation of The Castle captures comedic elements and visual imagery that earlier interpretations missed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Obscure, enigmatic, and not for everyone
- De John en 02-08-06
De: Franz Kafka
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The Ultimate Classics Collection – Volume One: 15 Novels from Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Tolstoy, Melville, Brontë, & More
- The Brothers Karamazov, Great Expectations, Moby Dick, The Call of the Wild, The Castle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Middlemarch, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights, & More
- De: Arthur Conan Doyle, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, y otros
- Narrado por: Stephen Fry, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, y otros
- Duración: 272 h y 9 m
- Highlights
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General2.5 out of 5 stars 17
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The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 15 essential classic novels by British, American, and Russian authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, and many more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Charles Dickens; Franz Kafka; Herman Melville; Leo Tolstoy, amongst a host of others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Collection
- De Anonymous User en 03-01-25
De: Arthur Conan Doyle, y otros
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The Trial
- De: Franz Kafka
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Howard
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 146
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Joseph K. is an Everyman. His inconsequence makes doubly strange his arrest by an officer of the court, made with no formal charges or explanation. Disoriented and consumed with guilt for a "crime" he does not understand, Josef K. must justify his life to a "court" with which he cannot communicate. Through the court's relentless bureaucratic proceedings and absurd juxtapositions of different hypotheses of cause and effect, the whole rational structure of the world is undermined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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dangers of a police state
- De Donald en 09-29-09
De: Franz Kafka
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50+ Great Novellas and Short Stories. Vol. 1
- Selections from Poe, London, Twain, Melville, Kipling, Dickens, Tolstoy, Joyce, Hemingway, Bradbury, Christie and Many More
- De: O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Mansfield, y otros
- Narrado por: Peter Coates, David J Miles, Joe Phoenix
- Duración: 42 h y 33 m
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This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature. The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century. The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose. It features classics of American, British, Irish, French, German, and Russian literature.
De: O. Henry, y otros
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A Letter to My Father
- De: Franz Kafka
- Narrado por: Deaver Brown
- Duración: 1 h y 52 m
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General2 out of 5 stars 18
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This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Good story - TERRIBLE READING
- De Michael Norman en 05-03-20
De: Franz Kafka
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The Leo Tolstoy Complete Collection
- War and Peace; Anna Karenina; Resurrection; Short Stories; Novellas; and Non-Fiction
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble, Malk Williams, Emma Gregory
- Duración: 186 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Leo Tolstoy: The Complete Collection includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy's 3 timeless novels; all his major novellas and short stories; and 4 renowned works of non-fiction in one audiobook, all read by Audie Award-winning narrators.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Legendary author, flawless narrations.
- De Kindle Customer en 06-07-24
De: Leo Tolstoy
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Existentialism - Philosophical and Literary Works
- Notes from Underground. Fear and Trembling. Ecce Homo. The Metamorphosis and Others
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, y otros
- Narrado por: Peter Coates, Mark Bowen, Shawna Wolf
- Duración: 27 h y 59 m
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Existentialism: Philosophical and Literary Works is a compelling anthology that delves into the realm of existentialist thought, exploring the profound philosophical and literary works that have shaped this influential movement. From the psychological depths of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground to the existential dilemmas of Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, and the introspective reflections of. Friedrich Nietzsche's Ecce Homo, this collection encompasses a wide range of existentialist voices.
De: Fyodor Dostoevsky, y otros