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Franz Kafka
David Wyllie
Our Price$3.50
Availability: In Stock
Grade Level: 9 and Up
ISBN: 048647061x
Page Count: 176
Dimensions: 5 3/16 x 8 1/4
From its gripping first sentence onward, this novel exemplifies the term "Kafkaesque." Its darkly humorous narrative recounts a bank clerk's entrapment — based on an undisclosed charge — in a maze of bureaucratic roadblocks. This is the least expensive edition available of one of the 20th century's most important novels.
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