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9780805210552

The Complete Stories

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  • ISBN13:

    9780805210552

  • ISBN10:

    0805210555

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-11-14
  • Publisher: Schocken

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Summary

The only available collection that brings together all of Kafka's stories--those published during his lifetime and those released after his death.

Author Biography

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 At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work.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.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD ix
JOHN UPDIKE
TWO INTRODUCTORY PARABLES 3(6)
Before the Law*
3(1)
An Imperial Message*
4(5)
THE LONGER STORIES 9(370)
Description of a Struggle
9(43)
Wedding Preparations in the Country
52(25)
The Judgment*
77(12)
The Metamorphosis*
89(51)
In the Penal Colony*
140(28)
The Village Schoolmaster [The Giant Mole]
168(15)
Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor
183(23)
The Warden of the Tomb
206(14)
A Country Doctor*
220(6)
The Hunter Gracchus
226(5)
The Hunter Gracchus: A Fragment
231(4)
The Great Wall of China
235(13)
The News of the Building of the Wall: A Fragment
248(2)
A Report to an Academy*
250(9)
A Report to an Academy: Two Fragments
259(4)
The Refusal
263(5)
A Hunger Artist*
268(10)
Investigations of a Dog
278(39)
A Little Woman*
317(8)
The Burrow
325(35)
Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk*
360(19)
THE SHORTER STORIES 379(80)
Children on a Country Road*
379(3)
The Trees*
382(1)
Clothes*
382(1)
Excursion into the Mountains*
383(1)
Rejection*
383(1)
The Street Window*
384(1)
The Tradesman*
385(2)
Absent-minded Window-gazing*
387(1)
The Way Home*
387(1)
Passers-by*
388(1)
On the Tram*
388(1)
Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys*
389(1)
The Wish to Be a Red Indian*
390(1)
Unhappiness*
390(4)
Bachelor's Ill Luck*
394(1)
Unmasking a Confidence Trickster*
395(2)
The Sudden Walk*
397(1)
Resolutions*
398(1)
A Dream*
399(2)
Up in the Gallery*
401(1)
A Fratricide*
402(2)
The Next Village*
404(1)
A Visit to a Mine*
404(3)
Jackals and Arabs*
407(4)
The Bridge
411(1)
The Bucket Rider
412(2)
The New Advocate*
414(1)
An Old Manuscript*
415(3)
The Knock at the Manor Gate
418(1)
Eleven Sons*
419(5)
My Neighbor
424(2)
A Crossbreed [A Sport]
426(1)
The Cares of a Family Man*
427(2)
A Common Confusion
429(1)
The Truth about Sancho Panza
430(1)
The Silence of the Sirens
430(2)
Prometheus
432(1)
The City Coat of Arms
433(1)
Poseidon
434(1)
Fellowship
435(1)
At Night
436(1)
The Problem of Our Laws
437(2)
The Conscription of Troops
439(2)
The Test
441(1)
The Vulture
442(1)
The Helmsman
443(1)
The Top
444(1)
A Little Fable
445(1)
Home-Coming
445(1)
First Sorrow*
446(3)
The Departure
449(1)
Advocates
449(2)
The Married Couple
451(5)
Give it Up!
456(1)
On Parables
457(2)
POSTSCRIPT 459(2)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 461(4)
EDITORS AND TRANSLATORS 465(2)
ON THE MATERIAL INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME 467(8)
CHRONOLOGY 475(6)
SELECTED WRITINGS ON KAFKA 481

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