Worlds Greatest Original Classics : The Metamorphosis, Don Quixote and The Skylight Room and Other Stories (Bundle of 3 Books) U

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself. Originally published in German as Die Verwandlung (1915), The Metamorphosis is one of the Austrian writer Franz Kafkas finest stories. A masterpiece of absurdist Kafkaesque fiction, the novella traces the life of a salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one day to find himself transformed into a hideous insect. With its myriad psychological, sociological, feminist and artistic interpretations, this novella remains a favourite amongst literary critics. Subsequent writers of absurdist fiction were deeply inspired by The Metamorphosis, that has been adapted into film, television and theatre since it was first published. There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it. One of the earliest classics from the Spanish Golden Age known as the first modern novel, Miguel de Cervantess Don Quixote was published in two volumes. The first volume published in 1605, became a runaway success. Ten years later, in 1615, the second volume was published. Having devoured innumerable chivalric romances, Alonso Quixano, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha, sets out on an adventure to restore order in the world. Sancho Panza, his faithful squire, responds to Quixotes sermons on knighthood with wit and pragmatism. During his expedition, the knight-errant visits an inn imagining it to be a castle, fights with impudent sorcerers, chases windmills thinking them to be giants, and steals a barbers basin mistaking it to be the mythic Mambrinos helmet among other absurdities. Through his protagonists ludicrous transformation, Cervantes, not only redefined the form of the novel but also created a thinking, critical reader. If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote, said Ben Okri, Booker Prize winner, of this masterpiece. American author William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry (11 September 1862-5 June 1910), was a prolific short-story writer. Adept at handling comic and tragic themes, he used to great effect, both sentiment and surprise endings in his stories. Many of these trace the lives of ordinary New Yorkers who yearn for romance, passion and adventure, brilliantly capturing in the process the rhythms of American life at a time when slavery and the Indian wars were a raw and recent memory. In his first book, he brought to life a colorful cast of characters whose stories unravel against a Honduran setting. This collection, featuring some of O. Henrys best storiesThe Gift of the Magi, The Last Leaf, The Skylight Room, A Municipal Report and The Making of a New Yorker - showcases his mastery over the medium and the sheer range of his themes.