The Metamorphosis
Ranked #3 in German, Ranked #6 in Surrealism — see more rankings.
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."
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"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."
With it's... more
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Rankings by Category
The Metamorphosis is ranked in the following categories:
- #48 in 12th Grade
- #48 in 17-Year-Old
- #48 in 18-Year-Old
- #38 in 20th Century
- #47 in Abstract
- #79 in Black and White
- #57 in Children's Bug
- #58 in Class
- #95 in Classical
- #8 in Existential
- #15 in Existentialism
- #64 in Gilmore Girls
- #88 in High School
- #81 in High School Reading
- #95 in Literary
- #48 in Literature
- #63 in Magical Realism
- #80 in Modern Classic
- #17 in Modernism
- #25 in Modernist
- #51 in Project Gutenberg
- #49 in Property
- #41 in Public Domain
- #65 in Roman
- #11 in Short
- #37 in Short Stories
- #26 in Translated
- #45 in Turkish
- #54 in University
- #12 in Weird
- #8 in Wordpress
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