# Metamorphosis

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- Book: [Metamorphosis](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka/metamorphosis) ([Metamorphosis.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka/metamorphosis.md))
- Authors: [Franz Kafka](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4157-373-0
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2022-08-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach. Metamorphosis, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, is one of the twentieth century's most influential works of fiction, and is accompanied here by two more classic stories.