The Castle (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

Summoned to take up the position of a land surveyor to the mysterious lord of a castle the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties. About the Author Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime.Meditation a collection of sketches appeared in 1912The Stoker A Fragment in 1913Metamorphosis in 1915The Judgement in 1916In the Penal Colony in 1919 andA Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosisAmerica The Trial andThe Castle.