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Easton Press leather edition of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stories," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Illustrated by Lynn Pritchard, Frontispiece Portrait of Kafka by Chris Simon, published in 1996. Bound in deep hunter green leather, the book has camel tan French moire silk end leaves, satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. Franz Kafka, who lived from 1883-1924, was a Jewish citizen of Prague, in the Czech Republic. "Stories" include: "Children on a Country Road," "Unmasking a Confidence Trickster," "The Sudden Walk," "Resolutions," "Excursions into the Mountains," "Bachelor's Ill Luck," "Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys," "The Trees," "Jackals and Arabs," "The Village Schoolmaster," "The Hunger Artist," "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folks," "The Bucket Rider," "In the Penal Colony," "Clothes," "Passers-by," "The Wish to Be a Red Indian," "A Country Doctor," "The Hunter Gracchus," "The Cares of a Family Man," "An Old Manuscript," "Up in the Gallery," "On the Tram," "The Street Window," "Unhappiness," "Bachelor's Ill Luck," "Eleven Sons," "Before the Law," "The New Advocate," "A Fratricide," "A Little Woman," "The Next Village," "A Report to an Academy," "A Visit to a Mine," "The Way Home," "Absent-minded Window-gazing," "The Tradesman," "Rejection," "First Sorrow," "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk," and my favorite: "The Metamorphosis," the story of GREGOR SAMSA who wakes up as a bug and his cruel treatment by his uncaring family---who only want Gregor for the money he earns. Ultimately, the father hits Gregor with an apple and the wound in his back grew acute. Only his sister, Grete, seems to care. 168 pages. I offer combined shipping.
