The Castle

London: Martin Secker, 1930.

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Hardcover. First English edition, and the first edition in English. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Publisher's promotional pamphlet for the book laid in. A spectacular copy of an exceptionally important novel, and Kafka's first book to be published in English, preceding the American edition.

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Item #500444 The Castle. Franz KAFKA.
The Castle

Franz Kafka
birth name: Franz Kafka
born: 7/3/1883
died: 6/3/1924
nationality: Czechoslovakia

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Czech-born German writer of visionary fiction whose posthumously published novels express the anxieties and alienation of 20th-century man. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore