Metamorphosis Av Franz Kafka, Michael Hoffman

<p><b>Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world''s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.</b><br><br> Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.<br><br>One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach. <i>Metamorphosis, </i>Kafka''s masterpiece of unease and black humour, is one of the twentieth century''s most influential works of fiction, and is accompanied here by two more classic stories.<br><br>''He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarf