"The Metamorphosis" is Franz Kafka's brilliant serio-comedic novella about Gregor Samsa, a young man who wakes up one morning to find himself inexplicably changed into a giant cockroach. The sole breadwinner for his family, Gregor suddenly finds himself unable to leave his own apartment and unable to communicate even to his own family. As the plot progresses and Samsa's family struggle to keep him alive, he is forced to come to terms with his own literal parasitism and his very worth as a creature on this planet.

This book was unpublished during Kafka's lifetime but eventually became one of his best-known and most revered works. It is presented here in its original and unabridged format as translated from the German by David Wyllie.