Franz Kafka
Born
in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, Czech Republic
July 03, 1883
Died
June 03, 1924
Genre
Influences
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The Metamorphosis
6923 editions
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1915
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The Trial
1269 editions
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published
1925
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The Castle
23 editions
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published
1926
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
346 editions
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published
1915
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Letter to His Father
by
453 editions
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published
1919
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The Complete Stories
by
130 editions
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published
1946
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Amerika
by
594 editions
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published
1927
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In the Penal Colony
676 editions
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published
1918
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The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka
by
38 editions
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1915
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A Hunger Artist
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203 editions
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published
1924
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“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
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Polls
October 2014 New School Poll
1911, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, pages 331
1925, The Trial by Franz Kafka, pages 276
1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, pages 291
1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, pages 305
1952, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 581 pages
1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, pages 329
1999, Girl With a Pearl Earring byTracy Chevalier, 233 pages
1966, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, pages 311
1901, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, pages 731
1924, The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, pages 246
1957, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, pages 220
1974, Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, pages 336
1952, The Birds by Daphne du Maurier, pages 75
1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages
1908, The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, pages 198
1985, The Postman: Il Postino by Antonio Skármeta, pages 128
1980. Aztec by Gary Jennings, pages 754
1903, The Ambassadors by Henry James, pages 528
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