{"product_id":"the-castle-isbn-9781454970934","title":"The Castle","description":"\u003cb\u003eA darkly comic novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, \u003ci\u003eThe Castle \u003c\/i\u003efollows a man grappling with his inscrutable new master's authority, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square \u0026amp; Co. Signature Classics Line.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Published posthumously in 1926, \u003ci\u003eThe Castle\u003c\/i\u003e is Franz Kafka's final, unfinished novel, and a dark, surrealistic exploration of bureaucracy and alienation. Known or its absurdity and labrinthine plot, the novel follows a land surveyor known as \"K\" who, after moving for work, is drawn to a mysterious yet inaccessible castle that governs his new village. Irving Howe praised the book as projecting \"a greater strength of will than we have encountered in Kafka’s earlier writings\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003ean effort to overcome the muteness of existence.”","brand":"Hachette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52119333634277,"sku":"NP9781454970934","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-castle-isbn-9781454970934","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}