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America by Franz Kafka
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The story of Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity, he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange escapades and dizzying adventures.
Amerika by Franz Kafka
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'He had almost forgotten he was in the uncertain hold of a ship moored to the coast of an unknown continent'Karl Rossmann has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he s ...Show more
Amerika by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'He is the greatest German writer of our time' Vladimir Nabakov After an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, sixteen-year-old Karl Rossman is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the land of opportunity, Karl's youthful breeziness propels him into a series ...Show more
Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared by Franz Kafka
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Although Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and ...Show more
Castle by Franz Kafka
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Kafka's final novel was written during 1922, when the tuberculosis that was to kill him was already at an advanced stage. Fragmentary and unfinished, it perhaps never could have been finished; perhaps the tensions between K., the Castle and the village, K.'s struggle for acceptance or recognition by the ...Show more
Dearest Father by Franz Kafka
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oneworld Classics S.
Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and in this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as a long, tense and dramatic confession in which wr ...Show more
Diaries - Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka (translated by Ross Benjamin)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka's Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including accounts of daily events, assor ...Show more
He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka (riverrun Editions) by Franz Kafka; Joshua Cohen (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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 honest thing to do is point.' Joshua Cohen, from his preface to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, t ...Show more
In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
$5.00 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
'The condemned man looked so doggishly submissive, it really seemed as if one might allow him to roam the slopes freely, and only needed to whistle when it was time for the execution, and he would come.' Kafka transformed the possibilities of the short story, his unique imagination giving his dark tales ...Show more
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
$2.50 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Penguin Modern
If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.
Investigations of a Dog : And Other Creatures by Franz Kafka , Transl: Michael Hofmann
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
Description: Animals, strange beasts, bureaucrats, businessmen, and nightmares populate this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. These matchless short works, all unpublished during Kafka's lifetime, range from the gleeful dialogue between a cat and a mouse in "Little Fable" to the absurd humor of "Inv ...Show more
Letter to His Father / Brief an den Vater by Franz Kafka
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Schocken Kafka Library
One of the most astonishing and revelatory pieces of writing ever produced by this twentieth-century literary icon, presented in both the original German and the English translation. Kafka s letter to his father is at once an exploration of his relationship to his father, his need to write, and the sour ...Show more