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010 _a 2010275718
020 _a978-1-4165-9968-5 (pbk.)
040 _aNU FAIRVIEW
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050 0 0 _aPT 2621 K34 2009
082 0 0 _a833/.912
_222
100 1 _aKafka, Franz,
_d1883-1924.
_eauthor.
240 1 0 _aVerwandlung.
_lEnglish
245 1 4 _aThe metamorphosis /
_cFranz Kafka ; translated from the German by Ian Johnston ; supplementary materials written by Laura Nathan ; series edited by Cynthia Brantley Johnson.
260 _aNew York :
_bSimon & Schuster Paperbacks,
_cc2009.
300 _axx, 119 pages ;
_c18 cm.
365 _b447.00
490 0 _aSimon & Schuster enriched classic
520 _aSo begins The Metamorphosis, one of the most recognizable opening lines in literature. The story of Gregor Samsa, a young man who, after transforming overnight into a giant, beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, and a quintessentially alienated man. One of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction, The Metamorphosis is a harrowing yet absurdly comic meditation on inadequacy, guilt, and isolation
650 0 _aAlienation (Social psychology) ALIENATION (SOCILA PSYCHOLOGY)
_vFICTION.
655 0 _aPsychological fiction.
700 1 _aNathan-Garner, Laura.
_esupplementary author
700 1 _aJohnston, Ian
_q(Ian Courtenay),
_d1938-
_etranslator
700 1 _aJohnson, Cynthia,
_d1969-
_eeditor
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