• The Best Franz Kafka Books - The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (ed. and translated by Stanley Corngold)
  • The Best Franz Kafka Books - The Trial by Franz Kafka
  • The Best Franz Kafka Books - Franz Kafka: The Office Writings by Franz Kafka (ed. Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg, and Benno Wagner)
  • The Best Franz Kafka Books - Kafka's Selected Stories by Franz Kafka
  • The Best Franz Kafka Books - Kafka: The Early Years by Reiner Stach & Shelley Frisch (trans.)

The Best Franz Kafka Books, recommended by Stanley Corngold

“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin”—Kafka, The Metamorphosis. This is one of the most famous opening lines in all of world literature, but how ‘Kafkaesque’ was Franz Kafka? What are our misconceptions about his life and work? Professor Stanley Corngold, one of the most influential Kafka scholars, introduces us to an “athlete of anguish”.

  • The Best D.H. Lawrence Books - Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence
  • The Best D.H. Lawrence Books - Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
  • The Best D.H. Lawrence Books - Mr Noon by D. H. Lawrence
  • The Best D.H. Lawrence Books - Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine by D. H. Lawrence
  • The Best D.H. Lawrence Books - Birds, Beasts and Flowers by D. H. Lawrence

The Best D.H. Lawrence Books, recommended by Catherine Brown

Although less flamboyantly experimental than his contemporaries Joyce and Woolf, D H Lawrence was a modernist, says literary scholar Catherine Brown. Here, she selects five books that make the case for this most contradictory, and often divisive, of writers—a man whose fictions and ‘philosophicalish’ works were by turns brilliant and bewildering, sublime and ridiculous