Titles in This Set:

1. The Castle
2. The Trial
3. The Metamorphosis
4. Letters to Milena
5. A Hunger Artist and Other Short Stories

Description:

The Castle
The Castle by Franz Kafka, published after his death, is an enigmatic tale where among other themes, he explores the relation between power and the individual.

The setting is a remote village, covered in snow almost perennially, dominated by a castle that is inaccessible and occupied by dictatorial, self-serving bureaucrats The story follows a land surveyor, K., through his baffling struggle in contacting his employer, and the consequent encounters in a village whose inhabitants readily submit to an authority that may only exist in their collective imagination.

The Trial
The Trial by Franz Kafka is a work of psychological terror that hints of the totalitarian excesses of the