The Trial
by Franz Kafka
1925
ISBN/ASIN: 1612931030
Number of pages: 160
Description:
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. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes.
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