"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." The Metamorphosis - the masterpiece of Franz Kafka - was first published in 1915 and is one of the seminal works of fiction of the twentieth century. The novel is cited as a key influence for many of today's leading authors; as Auden wrote: "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man". Traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Gregor's transformation is never revealed, and as he attempts to adjust to his new condition he becomes a burden to his parents and sister, who are repelled by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become. - A harrowing, yet strangely comic, meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosishas taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. - The Legend Classics series: Around the World in Eighty Days - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Importance of Being Earnest - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - The Railway Children - The Hound of the BaskervillesFrankensteinWuthering Heights - Three Men in a Boat - The Time Machine - Little Women - Anne of Green Gables - The Jungle Book - The Yellow Wallpaper and Other StoriesDraculaA Study in Scarlet - Leaves of Grass - The Secret Garden - The War of the Worlds - A Christmas Carol - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Heart of Darkness - The Scarlet Letter - This Side of Paradise - Oliver Twist - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Treasure Island - The Turn of the Screw - The Adventures of Tom SawyerEmmaThe Trial - A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe - Grimm Fairy Tales - The Awakening - Mrs Dalloway - Gulliver's Travels - The Castle of Otranto - Silas Marner - Hard Times