The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of short fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world; Elias Canetti described it as "one of the few great and perfect works of the poetic imagination written during this century". The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect (see Lost in translation, below).

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	Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	348906			2017
	The Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	362150			2019
	The Metamorphosis	Audible Audio Edition	1	$9.95		2011
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	7384714	$8.96	$24.52	2006
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	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	6150000		$0.01
	The Metamorphosis (Original Edition)	Kindle Edition	79780	$0.99		2014
	The Metamorphosis (Xist Classics)	Kindle Edition	71925			2015
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	257477	$3.49		2013
	Metamorphosis	Hardcover	3078758	$40.00	$14.06
	Metamorphosis	Paperback	313177	$3.79	$3.71	2013
	Metamorphosis: A BBC Radio 4 Reading	Audible Audio Edition	84155	$9.32		2018
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	515121	$2.50	$1.60	2010
	Metamorphosis	Paperback	3805898	$104.48	$0.01
	The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classic)	Mass Market Paperback	1077638	$4.43	$0.01	1972
	The Metamorphosis: A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky	Kindle Edition	26817	$7.07		2014
	The Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	22037	$0.99		2008
	The Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	46602	$0.99		2010
	Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)	Kindle Edition	190793	$10.89		2008
	Metamorphosis and Other Stories	Paperback	3231020	$5.51	$2.09	2007
	The Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	357815	$7.99		2009
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	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	169804	$6.19		2013
	Metamorphosis	Paperback	3902222	$8.79	$0.69	2007
	The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories (Schocken Kafka Library)	Kindle Edition	280080	$5.99		2009
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	457288	$20.79	$20.80	2011
	Metamorphosis (Illustrated)	Kindle Edition	34177			2014
	The Metemorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories	Hardcover	930947	$4.92	$0.01
	Metamorphosis	Hardcover	1355899	$9.95	$11.63	2014
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	38073	$0.01	$16.46	2014
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	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	714246	$4.88	$4.16	2013
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	Metamorphosis	Audio CD	454355	$8.58	$24.76
	The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)	Kindle Edition	192098	$5.84		2009
	Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	100833	$0.99		2014
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	739400	$5.36		2013
	The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories (Unabridged Classics in Audio)	Audio CD	3167420	$37.30	$29.99	2005
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	1277672	$4.58	$1.99	2011
	Metamorphosis	Hardcover	4337098	$195.00	$32.49
	Metamorphosis	Paperback	5157394	$7.98	$7.99	2017
	The Metamorphosis	Hardcover	2581829	$19.49	$30.00	2010
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	1877403	$5.00	$2.50	2010
	The Metamorphosis	Audio CD	4044437	$14.84	$12.95	2010
	The Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	273223	$0.99		2013
	Metamorphosis	Paperback	958034	$2.50	$2.50	2013
	The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka	Paperback	1865037	$1.50	$0.01	1995
	The Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	149530	$1.99		2014
	Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	539394	$3.99		2014
	The Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	109166	$0.99		2014
	The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)	Kindle Edition	44658	$1.99		2012
	Metamorphosis	Paperback	463611	$9.09		2016
	Metamorphosis	Mass Market Paperback	6599431	$10.00	$0.01
	The Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	399813			2016
	Metamorphosis (Classical Books)	Paperback	402331	$4.59	$3.49	2016
	The Metamorphosis (Chump Change Edition)	Hardcover	6057776	$9.89	$12.88	2017
	Metamorphosis: With 10 Illustrations and a Free Online Audio File.	Kindle Edition	57531	$0.99		2014
	The Metamorphosis	Audible Audio Edition	31223	$6.08		2016
	Metamorphosis (Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition)	Paperback	5436536	$17.95	$14.94	2006
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	153609	$5.49		2015
	Metamorphosis	Audible Audio Edition	16696	$8.74		2016
	METAMORPHOSIS (Wisehouse Classics Edition)	Paperback	1294070	$2.86		2015
	La Metamorfosis / The Metamorphosis (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	1120105	$7.85	$8.27	2008
	La metamorfosis (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	5871438	$3.32	$32.56	2010
	The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Broadview Anthology of British Literature Editions)	Paperback	7196219	$13.95		2015
	Metamorphosis	Hardcover	622570	$23.95	$12.53	2012
	The Metamorphosis (Library Edition)	Audio CD	5197441	$21.04	$14.00	2011
	The Metamorphosis	Hardcover	4778236	$93.07	$13.97	2003
	The Metamorphosis and Other Stories	Paperback	76037	$6.99	$16.02	2018
	Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)	Kindle Edition	470315			2014
	The Metamorphosis and Other Stories	Paperback	1841405	$4.76	$1.99	1996
	Metamorphosis (English Edition)	Paperback	16710078	$7.50		2016
	The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stori: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka	Kindle Edition	363026	$9.39		2010
	Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)	Paperback	491160	$2.32	$0.01	2003
	The Metamorphosis and other stories	Hardcover	1095817	$1.24	$0.01
	The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories (Unabridged Classics in Audio)	Audio CD	9140553		$3.79
	The Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	161768			2015
	Die Verwandlung - Metamorphosis (Zweisprachige Gold Edition (Deutsch / Englisch)) (German Edition)	Kindle Edition	487591			2013
	The Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	89404	$2.46		2020
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	338448	$5.95	$0.60	2010
	Metamorphosis	Paperback	360059	$5.25		2016
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	646032	$6.11	$4.32	2017
	Metamorphosis (Hesperus Modern Voices)	Paperback	5695741	$4.88	$0.19	2005
	Metamorphosis	Paperback	705468	$6.44	$4.14	1989
	The Metamorphosis Annotated	Paperback	888336	$7.50		2021
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	458388	$6.95		2016
	The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)	Hardcover	1378111	$2.99	$0.01	2004
	Metamorphosis	Paperback	5484626	$2.06	$2.04	2014
	The Sons (Schocken Kafka Library)	Kindle Edition	571435			2009
	The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions)	Kindle Edition	187688			2015
	Metamorphosis	Audible Audio Edition	23306	$12.22		2016
	THE METAMORPHOSIS	Mass Market Paperback	4594951	$5.95	$5.95
	The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions)	Paperback	1299221	$5.37	$1.69	1996
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	62234	$6.00	$7.98	2020
	The Metamorphosis (Modern Library Classics)	Kindle Edition	654801			2013
	Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Twentieth Century Classics)	Paperback	5757383		$0.01	1990
	The Metamorphosis Thrift Study Edition (Dover Thrift Study Edition)	Kindle Edition	1142247			2013
	The Metamorphosis: The Illustrated Edition	Paperback	293606	$9.79	$1.38	2004
	Metamorphosis (Wisehouse Classics Edition)	Hardcover	1312042	$12.44		2017
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	864948	$6.99		2021
	Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	433060			2020
	The Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	440869			2019
	The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - Del Prado Miniature (The Miniature Classics Library)	Hardcover	10519387		$14.34
	Die Verwandlung - Metamorphosis: (German-English parallel text) (German Edition)	Paperback	550961	$7.53	$9.11	2014
	The Metamorphosis: A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky	Audible Audiobook	19908	$5.95		2014
	Short Stories (The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories)	Hardcover	8284154	$79.99
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	24908	$7.99	$7.52	2019
	Short Classics Collection: A Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland, Call of the Wild, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Metamorphosis, and More	Audible Audiobook	125899	$26.21		2020
	The Metamorphosis (Unabridged and Illustrated)	Kindle Edition	81006			2017
	The Metamorphosis	Hardcover	8405003	$10.32	$13.38	2018
	Metamorphosis	Audio CD	12126545	$10.81	$17.50	2003
	The Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	148752	$0.99		2022
	The Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	195604			2016
	The Metamorphosis (Kessinger Legacy Reprints)	Hardcover	8657616	$22.86	$24.60	2010
	Die Verwandlung / The Metamorphosis: Bilingual Edition German - English | Side By Side Translation | Parallel Text Novel For Advanced Language Learning | Learn German With Stories	Paperback	196865	$7.99		2019
	The Sons (Schocken Kafka Library)	Paperback	246041	$6.00	$3.49	1989
	The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions)	Paperback	199302	$12.81	$2.00	2015
	Metamorphosis (Illustrated) (Classic)	Paperback	1389972	$19.87		2020
	The Metamorphosis: Classic Tales Edition	Audible Audiobook	172622	$4.28		2020
	The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)	Paperback	196799	$6.97	$3.42	2009
	Metamorphosis	Paperback	9345762	$10.97	$15.63	2020
	The Metamorphosis: Franz Kafka	Paperback	118575	$9.99		2022
	The Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	5524	$0.99		2013
	The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics (Pb))	Hardcover	870042	$16.74	$8.41	1972
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	157388	$5.94	$3.00	2006
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	6836	$3.66	$4.44	2009
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	1024527	$5.15	$1.10	2008
	The Metamorphosis	Hardcover	1464500	$22.49	$49.39	2011
	The Metamorphosis, the Penal Colony, and Other Stories (Schocken Classics)	Paperback	2245815	$1.90	$0.01	1988
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	8073	$2.76	$2.22	2009
	Metamorphosis Mp3	Audio CD	10409926	$9.99
	The Metamorphosis (Modern Library Classics)	Paperback	533410	$6.76	$1.78	2013
	Metamorphosis (with linked TOC)	Kindle Edition	414259			2009
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	593768	$3.86	$4.93	2012
	The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, and Other Stories	Paperback	850842	$9.00	$1.28	2000
	The Metamorphosis	Paperback	263220	$4.99		2022
	Metamorphosis (Hesperus Classics)	Paperback	2762634	$2.52	$0.01	2006
	The Metamorphosis: A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky	Paperback	25200	$8.01	$2.57	2014
	Metamorphosis	Kindle Edition	478557	$0.99		2011
	The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)	Paperback	60123	$1.49	$0.77	1996
	The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)	Mass Market Paperback	202087	$2.50	$0.99	1972
	The Metamorphosis / Die Verwandlung (Bilingual Edition: English - German / Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Englisch - Deutsch)	Paperback	363079	$4.95		2017
	The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories (The Schocken Kafka Library)	Paperback	32426	$10.98	$2.87	1995
	Metamorphosis	Paperback	1116102	$6.99	$7.35	2012
	Increase Vocabulary by Reading Franz Kafka's METAMORPHOSIS	Paperback	1591665	$5.69	$51.76	2012
	The Metamorphosis	Audible Audiobook	17279	$0.82		2018
	Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka	Paperback	642712	$4.49		2015
	The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Flexibound Classics)	Leather Bound	518750	$12.09	$18.63	2017
	The Metamorphosis (Dover Thrift Study Edition)	Paperback	442697	$2.11	$0.81	2009
	The Metamorphosis: German and English parallel text (Translate House Classics)	Paperback	1110505	$8.95		2014
	The Transformation (Metamorphosis) and Other Stories: Works Published During Kafka's Lifetime (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)	Paperback	430107	$5.11	$0.01	1995
	Metamorphosis and Other Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)	Paperback	171196	$11.59	$1.95	2008
	The Metamorphosis and Other Stories: SeaWolf Press Classic	Paperback	209908	$6.95		2022