Kafka’s first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself “packed off to America” by his parents....

When a man known only as K. arrives in a remote village claiming to have been summoned as the Castle’s land surveyor, he expects to begin his work without delay. Instead, he finds himself entangled in...

On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, Josef K. is arrested—though no one will tell him why. As he continues his ordinary life, Josef is drawn into a strange and unsettling legal process,...