title: Kafka: The Complete Stories
author:  Franz Kafka 
description: In nonstop color photos Burns takes readers on a voyeuristic journey through a bygone world, illustrating the precious pieces that antique dealers and fleamarketers hotly compete for today. A must for lovers of Americana and nostalgia. 100 four-color photos.
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  _With_ _its_ _cool,_ _detached_ _style_ _and_ _its_ _disturbing_ _images,_
  _this_ _story_ _is_ _as_ _mysteriously_ _compelling_ _as_ _Kafka's_
  Metamorphosis, _and_ _I_ _think_ _it_ _may_ _be_ _remembered_ _as_ _long._
  
  
  
  
  
  THE DROWNED GIANT
  
  
  
  
  
  J.G.Ballard
  
  
  On the morning after the storm the body of a drowned giant was washed ashore
  on the beach five miles to the northwest of the city. The first news of its
  arrival was brought by a nearby farmer and subsequently confirmed by the local
  newspaper reporters and the police. Despite this the majority of people,
  myself among them, remained skeptical, but the return of more and more
  eyewitnesses attesting to the vast size of the giant was finally too much for
  our curiosity. The library where my colleagues and I were carrying out our
  research was almost deserted when we set off for the coast shortly after two
  o'clock, and throughout the day people continued to leave their offices and
  shops as accounts of the giant circul