The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
Kafka's short, devastating novella about a young man who wakes up transformed. Three chapters, readable in one evening.
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One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.Franz Kafka, The MetamorphosisRead 11 hand-picked quotes from The Metamorphosis, with meaning →
How Classicly reads The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis is book 2 of 12 in our free year-long classics reading plan. At our daily pace of 8 pages, the book takes around 1 week to finish.
You log pages as you go in a private dashboard. When you finish, a short quiz unlocks the next book in the sequence. No deadlines, no summaries pretending to be reading.
Don't want to follow the order? You don't have to. Members can start with any of the twelve books, and the plan just nudges you back to the recommended path if you fall behind.
Why we picked it
A short novella about a young man who wakes up to discover that something fundamental about him has changed. Strange, dark, sometimes funny. One evening of reading.
Suitable for 14+. Level B1-B2, which means readers comfortable with upper-intermediate English will follow it without a dictionary; lower-intermediate readers can read with light support.
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