Introducing Little Clothbound Classics irresistible mini editions of short stories novellas and essays from the worlds greatest writers designed by the awardwinning Coralie BickfordSmith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna from haunted New England to a sundrenched Mediterranean island and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed these collectible editions are bound in colourful tactile cloth and stamped with foil.One morning ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach. Metamorphosis Kafkas masterpiece of unease and black humour is one of the twentieth centurys most influential works of fiction and is accompanied here by two more classic stories.He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him Vladimir Nabokov