Author: Franz Kafka

Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa was a meek salesman, browbeaten by his unappreciative employer and depended on fiercely by his ungrateful family. This...

'The supreme fabulist of modern man's cosmic predicament' John Updike'The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comi...

'...behind them all was New York, looking at Karl with the hundred thousand windows of its skyscrapers' Entering New York harbour, the young immig...

New translation of the best stories by one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers 'A genius' Guardian No one has ...

Selected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, the seventy-four pieces ...

Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the masters dark humour, Kuper...

A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literaturefeaturing facing-page commentary by Kafkas acclaimed biographerIn 1917 and ...

Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the masters dark humour, Kuper...

Animals, strange beasts, bureaucrats, businessmen, and nightmares populate this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. These matchless short works, ...

The Trial has been adapted for theatre, radio and cinema, including a major stage adaptation at the Young Vic in London 2015.

'Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who's standing just next to it. The only hones...

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. The Metamorphosis - the maste...