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The Trial
by Kafka, Franz
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0141182903
- ISBN 13
- 9780141182902
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Penguin Classics, London, 2000. Reprint. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 178 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. A gripping work of psychological horror, in its depiction of bureaucracy run amok Franz Kafka's The Trial skirts the line between fantasy and reality. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the German with an introduction by Idris Parry. 'Somebody must have laid false information against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.' From this first sentence onwards, Josef K. is on trial for his right to exist. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature, Literary, Poetry & Drama; Czechoslovakia; 1920s; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780141182902. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8634. . 9780141182902
Synopsis
It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of that work that it offers everything and confirms nothing' Albert CamusThe terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8634
- Title
- The Trial
- Author
- Kafka, Franz
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0141182903
- ISBN 13
- 9780141182902
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- BZDB137 trial kafka, czech, german, literature Literature, Literary, Poetry & Drama; Czechoslovakia; 1920s; EAN: 9780141182902 Kafka, Franz The Trial
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