| Description |
317 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents |
Conversation with the supplicant -- Meditation -- 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-gazing -- The way home -- Passers-by -- On the tram -- Clothes -- Rejection -- Reflections for gentlemen-jockeys -- The street window -- The wish to be a red Indian -- The trees -- Unhappiness --The judgment -- The metamorphosis -- 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 -- In the penal colony -- A hunger artist -- First sorrow -- A little woman -- A hunger artist -- Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk -- Appendix -- The first long train journey / Max Brod, Franz Kafka -- The aeroplanes at Brescia -- Three critical pieces -- Epilogue / Max Brod. |
| Summary |
"This powerful collection brings together all the stories Kafka allowed to be published during his lifetime."-back cover. |
| Subject |
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Translations into English.
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| Added Author |
Muir, Willa, 1890-1970, tr.
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Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959.
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| ISBN |
0805204180 (pbk.) |
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9780805204186 (pbk.) |
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