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  • Published: 28 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141194714
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 178
  • RRP: $14.99

The Trial: Popular Penguins



'Somebody must have laid false information against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.' From this first sentence onwards, Josef K. is on trial for his right to exist in a novel which, more than any other, is infinitely perceptive about the nature of terror and the futility of human life.

  • Published: 28 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141194714
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 178
  • RRP: $14.99

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial and The Castle.

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