{"product_id":"the-metamorphosis-and-other-stories","title":"The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.\" With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, \"The Metamorphosis.\" It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequecy, guilt, and isolation, \"The Metamorphosis\" has taken its place as one of the mosst widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, \"Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Franz Kafka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53207013621973,"sku":"BS-I6J-210576","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0777\/7170\/2485\/files\/9780805210576-HD.jpg?v=1771182190","url":"https:\/\/www.acornbookshop.com\/products\/the-metamorphosis-and-other-stories","provider":"Acorn Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}