Edited and with an Introduction by Gabriel Josipovici; translated by Willa and Edwin Muir.

CONTENTS:

Stories Published in Kafka's Lifetime

MEDITATION (1913)
Children on a Country Road
Unmasking a Confidence Trickster
The Sudden Walk
Resolutions
Excursion into the Mountains
Bachelor's Ill Luck
The Tradesman
Absent-minded Window-grazing
The Way Home
Passers-by
On the Train
Clothes
Rejection
Reflections for Gentlemen-jockeys
The Street Window
The Wish to be a Red Indian
The Trees
Unhappiness

THE JUDGMENT
THE STOKER
THE METAMORPHOSIS
IN THE PENAL COLONY
A COUNTRY DOCTOR

The New Advocate
A Country Doctor
Up in the Gallery
An Old Manuscript
Before the Law
Jackals and Arabs
A Visit to a Mine
The Next Village
An Imperial Message
The Cares of a Family Man
Eleven Sons
A Fratricide
A Dream
A Report to an Academy
The Bucket Rider (1921)

A HUNGER ARTIST (1924)
First Sorrow
A Little Woman
A Hunger Artist
Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk


Stories Unpublished in Kafka's Lifetime

Description of a Struggle
Wedding Preparations in the Country
The Student
The Angel
The Village Schoolmaster [The Giant Mole]
Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor
The Hunter Gracchus
The Proclamation
The Bridge
The Great Wall of China
The Knock at the Manor Gate
An Ancient Sword
New Lamps
My Neighbor
A Crossbreed [A Sport]
A Splendid Beast
The Watchman
A Common Confusion
The Truth About Sancho Panza
The Silence of the Sirens
Prometheus
The City Coat of Arms
Poseidon
Fellowship
At Night
The Problem of Our Laws
The Conscription of Troops
The Test
The Vulture
The Helmsman
The Top
Hands
A Little Fable
Isabella
Home-coming
A Chinese Puzzle
The Departure
Advocates
Investigations of a Dog
The Married Couple
Give It Up!
On Parables
The Burrow
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FRANZ KAFKA was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.

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Edited and with an Introduction by Gabriel Josipovici; translated by Willa and Edwin Muir.

CONTENTS:

Stories Published in Kafka's Lifetime

MEDITATION (1913)
Children on a Country Road
Unmasking a Confidence Trickster
The Sudden Walk
Resolutions
Excursion into the Mountains
Bachelor's Ill Luck
The Tradesman
Absent-minded Window-grazing
The Way Home
Passers-by
On the Train
Clothes
Rejection
Reflections for Gentlemen-jockeys
The Street Window
The Wish to be a Red Indian
The Trees
Unhappiness

THE JUDGMENT
THE STOKER
THE METAMORPHOSIS
IN THE PENAL COLONY
A COUNTRY DOCTOR

The New Advocate
A Country Doctor
Up in the Gallery
An Old Manuscript
Before the Law
Jackals and Arabs
A Visit to a Mine
The Next Village
An Imperial Message
The Cares of a Family Man
Eleven Sons
A Fratricide
A Dream
A Report to an Academy
The Bucket Rider (1921)

A HUNGER ARTIST (1924)
First Sorrow
A Little Woman
A Hunger Artist
Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk


Stories Unpublished in Kafka's Lifetime

Description of a Struggle
Wedding Preparations in the Country
The Student
The Angel
The Village Schoolmaster [The Giant Mole]
Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor
The Hunter Gracchus
The Proclamation
The Bridge
The Great Wall of China
The Knock at the Manor Gate
An Ancient Sword
New Lamps
My Neighbor
A Crossbreed [A Sport]
A Splendid Beast
The Watchman
A Common Confusion
The Truth About Sancho Panza
The Silence of the Sirens
Prometheus
The City Coat of Arms
Poseidon
Fellowship
At Night
The Problem of Our Laws
The Conscription of Troops
The Test
The Vulture
The Helmsman
The Top
Hands
A Little Fable
Isabella
Home-coming
A Chinese Puzzle
The Departure
Advocates
Investigations of a Dog
The Married Couple
Give It Up!
On Parables
The Burrow

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© Courtesy of Schocken Books

FRANZ KAFKA was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.

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