Franz Kafka

CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). 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,...

Collects seven short stories by the great Czech writer whose works have come to epitomize the alienation and dilemmas of 20th century humanity. The title story tells of a minor civil servant who awakes one morning to discover that he has turned into a gigaintic insect.

This brilliant new anthology collects 86 of the most beautiful, provocative and moving flash fiction narratives, which are very short stories usually no more than 750 words, from around the world that challenge readers to expand their horizons and celebrate both the local and universal.