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The Trial: Definitive Edition The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML-318
19562312570New York: The Modern Library 1956. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Salter George. 1961-1968 printing Toledano 318.1. Includes original jacket in the first of two different design styles with unnumbered list of titles printed on reverse. Top edge lightly foxed jacket a bit rubbed. 1956 Hard Cover. 340 4 pp. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir revised with additional materials translated by E.M. Butler illustrated by George Salter. "The Trial tells the terrifying tale of Joseph K. a respectable functionary in a bank who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential take a parable or a prophecy this hauntingly believable story stands out as one of the great novels of our times. Kafka's unsurpassed nightmare vision rings with chilling truth as it foreshadows the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes. The Modern Library hardcover books
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