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Benedict Cumberbatch reads the enduring classic of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. He attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repelled by the horrible creature he has become. First published in 1915, Kafka's darkly comic novella explores concepts such as the absurdity of life, alienation and the disconnect between mind and body.

"The Metamorphosis", first published in 1915, is the story of Gregor Samsa, a young traveling salesman who lives with his family and financially supports his parents and younger sister. One morning he awakes to discover that during the night he has been transformed into a horrible bug. Although somewhat of a horror genre, the story is often very funny as Gregor, his family, and those around him deal with their own transformations as a result of this odd predicament.

Georg's father accuses him of deceiving him about the happenings of the business.

When night falls, and the Arabs are at a distance, the traveler is accosted by talking jackals.

This story is a description of the view from the window.

Some say the word Odradek is of Slavonic origin, and try to account for it on that basis.

He is a poor man and hopes that the coal-dealer will be generous enough to lend him some coal.

A meets B at H and comes home pleased with the events.

A boat carrying long dead hunter Grachhus arrives at a port.

Often when I see clothes with manifold pleats, frills, and appendages which fit so smoothly onto lovely bodies I think they won't keep that smoothness long.

Large group of nomads fill the town square.

This is a story about an animal that is half kitten and half lamb, with distinctive attributes of his own.

When you go walking by night up a street and a man, visible a long way off - for the street mounts uphill and there is a full moon - comes running toward you, well, you don't catch hold of him, but you let him run on.

I was stiff and cold, I was a bridge, I lay over a ravine.

His sister playfully knocks on the door of a large house.

The story offers two versions of a scene in which a young man watches a circus ring master and a woman on a horseback.

A firm has hired a new associate, Bucephalos.

A country doctor makes an emergency visit to a sick patient on a winter night.

Josef K. is an ordinary man who is arrested on his 30th birthday. He is prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, yet the nature of his crime is never revealed to him. One year after his arrest he is executed. His last words describe his own death: "Like a dog!"

A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life - including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door - becomes increasingly unpredictable.