The Trial by Franz Kafka is a 340-page paperback from Vintage Books, a division of Random House, New York, first published in 1937, this copy published in February, 1969.

Book Summary

One of the great novels of the twentieth century, The Trial is the terrifying--and terrifyingly relevant--story of Joseph K., a respected functionary in a bank who is suddenly arrested and must spend the rest of his life fighting a charge against him about which he can get no information.

This edition contains more than 10,000 words from Kafka's manuscript which were omitted from the first American edition but included in the definitive German edition prepared by Max Brod, Kafka's closest friend and literary executor.