The Metamorphosis Great Books Edition

by Kafka, Franz; Pasley, Malcolm

• ISBN13: 9780140283365
• ISBN10: 0140283366
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

Excellent new English translations of title story (considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work), plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor," and "A Report to an Academy." Note.

Author Biography

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.

Table of Contents

Meditation	1	(26)
Children on the Country Road	1	(4)
Unmasking a Confidence Trickster	5	(2)
The Sudden Walk	7	(1)
Resolutions	8	(1)
The Excursion into the Mountains	9	(1)
The Fate of the Bachelor	10	(1)
The Businessman	11	(2)
A Stray Glance from the Window	13	(1)
The Way Home	14	(1)
The Men Running Past	15	(1)
The Passenger	16	(1)
Clothes	17	(1)
The Rejection	18	(1)
For the Consideration of Amateur Jockeys	19	(1)
The Window on the Street	20	(1)
Longing to be a Red Indian	21	(1)
The Trees	22	(1)
Unhappiness	23	(4)
The Judgement. A Story	27	(11)
The Stoker. A Fragment	38	(26)
The Metamorphosis	64	(47)
In the Penal Colony	111	(26)
A Country Doctor. Little Tales	137	(42)
The New Advocate	137	(2)
A Country Doctor	139	(6)
Up in the Gallery	145	(1)
A Leaf from an Old Manuscript	146	(2)
Before the Law	148	(2)
Jackals and Arabs	150	(4)
A Visit to the Mine	154	(3)
The Next Village	157	(1)
A Message from the Emperor	158	(1)
A Problem for the Father of the Family	159	(2)
Eleven Sons	161	(5)
A Fratricide	166	(2)
A Dream	168	(2)
A Report to an Academy	170	(9)
The Coal-Scuttle Rider	179	(3)
A Fasting-Artist. Four Stories	182	(1)
First Sorrow	182	(3)
A Little Woman	185	(7)
A Fasting-artist	192	(9)
Josefine, the Songstress or: The Mouse People	201