The Essential Kafka: The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Wordsworth Classics Book cover type:Paperback Aimed at children aged eight

Aimed at children aged eight and older

But knowledge obeys power

Not only are the results truly impressive

‘The best story I have written’ was Dickens’ own verdict on A Tale of Two Cities

but also absorbed trans-national as well as international influences

The Essential Kafka: The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Wordsworth Classics Book cover type:Paperback Aimed at children aged eightLike George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafkas world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentless atmosphere of disorientation. Superficially about bureaucracy, it is in