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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
1949
The Trial
Franz Kafka · 1925
208 pages
A clerk is arrested one morning and told he is on trial, though no one will say for what. As he tries to navigate a faceless legal system, his ordinary life unravels. A bleak, darkly funny novel about bureaucracy, guilt and power.
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Courtroom Drama, Dystopia, Psychological Thriller, Philosophical
