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The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung), also translated as The Transformation, is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915.One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and struggles to adjust to this ...
Cricket (insect) Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers. In older literature, such as Imms, [3] "crickets" were placed at the family level ( i.e. Gryllidae ), but contemporary authorities including Otte now place them in the superfamily Grylloidea. [1]
The Metamorphosis ( German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect and struggles to adjust to his new condition.
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives, The Garden of the Gods. My Family and Other Animals (1956) is an autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It tells in an exaggerated and sometimes fictionalised way of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939.
The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants ), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. [1] The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused. The situation sums up moral lessons about the virtues of hard work and planning for the ...
144. ISBN. 1-56858-055-X (1st ed.) Bloodchild and Other Stories is the only collection of science fiction stories and essays written by American writer Octavia E. Butler. Each story and essay features an afterword by Butler. "Bloodchild", the title story, won the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. It was first published in 1995.
Insects play important roles in around one hundred novels and a hundred short stories in English literature. They are used to portray both positive and negative qualities, more usually negative, including entrapment, stinging, being rapacious, and swarming. They are common in fantasy and especially in science fiction, often as the earthly or ...
Incest is an important thematic element and plot device in literature, with famous early examples such as Sophocles ' classic Oedipus Rex, a tragedy in which the title character unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother. [1] It occurs in medieval literature, [2] both explicitly, as related by denizens of Hell in Dante 's Inferno, and ...