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  • In the Penal Colony

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    '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 a sense of dream-like logic and unreality, in which their horrors are humorous and unease ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Metamorphosis and Other Stories

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    10 Masterpieces You Have To Listen To Before You Die: Vol. 1

    by Lewis Carroll, Joseph Conrad, Miguel de Cervantes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, Jack London, Sun Tzu, H.G. Wells, Plato ...
    Narrated by Michael Scott ...

    Abridged

    24 hours 18 min

    Contents: 1. Alice in wonderland 2. Heart of darkness 3. Don quixote 4. Curious case of benjamin button 5. The Raven 6. The metamorphosis 7. The call of the wild 8. The art of war 9. The war of the worlds 10. Apology of socrates ... Read more

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    Metamorphosis and Other Stories

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Narrated by Johnny Flynn ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 31 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael HofmannKafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Contemplation, a collection of his earlier short studies; ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Investigations of a Dog

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Series 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.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

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    50 Short Story Masterpieces you have to listen before you die (Golden Deer Classics)

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, O.Henry, Mark Twain, Kahlil Gibran, W.W. Jacobs, Anonymous, Thomas Jefferson, Founding Fathers, Plato, Lord Alfred Tennyson, T.S. Eliot, William Dean Howells, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Leo Tolstoy, Washington Irving, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bram Stoker, Sun Tzu, Edgar Allan Poe, Lao Tzu, Oscar Wilde, William Blake, Patrick Henry, H.G. Wells, Saki, Herman Melville, Clement Clarke Moore, Bret Harte, Immanuel Kant, Jack London, Henry Ford, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Perrault, Anton Chekhov, D.H. Lawrence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, John Muir ...
    Narrated by Michael Scott ...

    Unabridged

    32 hours 31 min

    F.Scott Fitzgerald - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 02. O.Henry - The Gift of the Magi 03. Mark Twain - On The Decay of the Art of Lying 04. Sun Tzu - The Art of War 05. E.A. Poe - The Raven 06. Kahlil Gibran - The Madman 07. W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw 08. Anonymous - Aladdin 09. The Founding Fathers - The Declaration of Independence 10. Plato - The Apology of Socrates 11. Lord Alfred ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Metamorphosis

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Narrated by Michael Scott ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 15 min

    The Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the story of Gregor Samsa, a young traveling salesman who lives with his family and financially supports his parents and younger sister. One morning he awakes to discover that during the night he has been transformed into a horrible bug. Although somewhat of a horror genre, the story is often very funny as Gregor, his family, and those around him deal ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    A Report to an Academy (Unabridged)

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Narrated by Michael Troy ...

    Unabridged

    28 min

    "A Report to an Academy" (German: "Ein Bericht für eine Akademie") is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation. The story was first published by Martin Buber in the German monthly Der Jude, along with another of Kafka's stories, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Knock on the Manor Gate (Unabridged)

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Narrated by Michael Troy ...

    Unabridged

    4 min

    "The Knock at the Manor Gate" is a short story by Franz Kafka. The short story illustrates many important themes in Kafka's works. The narrator details a ride with his sister on the way towards home. His sister playfully knocks on the door of a large house. This knock proves to have grave consequences. The owner is a person of great power and sends troops after the two of them. The narrator ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Worries of the Father of the Family or Odradek (Unabridged)

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Narrated by Michael Troy ...

    Unabridged

    4 min

    The Odradek is an imaginary creature that appears in the short story The Concerns of a Family Man by Franz Kafka . The physical description of the Odradek shows it as a flat, star-shaped spool of thread, with the addition of a few other appendages. Later in the story, Kafka gives the Odradek more human characteristics, being able to stand on two legs and speak. The narrator even gets to have a few ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Writings

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    A windfall for every reader: a trove of marvelous impossible-to-find Kafka stories in a masterful new translation by Michael HofmannSelected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, the seventy-four pieces gathered here have been lost to sight for decades and two of them have never been translated into English before. Some ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • America

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    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. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD