The Metamorphosis: Quick Facts

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Portrait of Austrian writer Franz Kafka as a young man around 1910, wearing a suit and tie, looking directly at the camera.

Illustration of an American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, showing its reddish-brown body, long antennae, and spiny legs from a top-down view.

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