Metamorphosis - Part II
He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value - in order to see what had been happening there.
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Posted on 9 May '08 by wgb, under Franz Kafka. No Comments.
Metamorphosis - Part I
When Gregor Samsa wakes from troubled dreams, he finds himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lays on his armour-like back, and if he lifts his head a little he can see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding is hardly able to cover it and seems ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, wave about helplessly...
Posted on 8 May '08 by wgb, under Franz Kafka. No Comments.
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Begins in May
The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arguably the most famous of his works along with the longer works The Trial and The Castle. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a giant “monstrous vermin”.
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Posted on 28 April '08 by wgb, under Franz Kafka. No Comments.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Chapter 10
Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case: a confession before dying.
~ THE END ~
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Chapter 9
Dr. Lanyon's Narrative: a strange letter from Dr. Jekyll summons Lanyon for a mission of mercy.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Chapter 8
The Last Night: Dr. Jekyll "disappears;" Mr. Hyde is found -- dead.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Chapter 7
Incident at the Window: "I am very low, Utterson," replied the doctor drearily, "very low. It will not last long, thank God."
Posted on 9 April '08 by wgb, under Robert Louis Stevenson. 1 Comment.
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