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The complete stories / Franz Kafka ; edited by Nahum N. Glatzer ; with a foreword by John Updike.
LIBRA - Special PT2621.A26 A2 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
- Series:
- Schocken classics
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Translations into English.
- Kafka, Franz.
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 486 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Schocken Books : Distributed by Pantheon Books, [1988]
- Summary:
- "All of Kafka's writing, with the exception of his three novels, is collected here and includes a number of fairly long stories followed by a group of shorter pieces varying in length from several pages to a single paragraph." Booklist.
- Contents:
- Two Introductory parables: Before the law
- Imperial message
- Longer stories: Description of a struggle
- Wedding preparations in the country
- Judgment
- Metamorphosis
- In the penal colony
- Village schoolmaster (The giant mole)
- Blumfeld, and elderly bachelor
- Warden of the tomb
- Country doctor
- Hunter Gracchus
- Hunter Gracchus: A fragment
- Great Wall of China
- News of the building of the wall: A fragment
- Report to an academy
- Report to an academy: Two fragments
- Refusal
- Hunger artist
- Investigations of a dog
- Little woman
- The burrow
- Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk
- Children on a country road
- The trees
- Clothes
- Excursion into the mountains
- Rejection
- The street window
- The tradesman
- Absent-minded window-gazing
- The way home
- Passers-by
- On the tram
- Reflections for gentlemen-jockeys
- The wish to be a red Indian
- Unhappiness
- Bachelor's ill luck
- Unmasking a confidence trickster
- The sudden walk
- Resolutions
- A dream
- Up in the gallery
- A fratricide
- The next village
- A visit to a mine
- Jackals and Arabs
- The bridge
- The bucket rider
- The new advocate
- An old manuscript
- The knock at the manor gate
- Eleven sons
- My neighbor
- A crossbreed (A sport)
- The cares of a family man
- 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 conscripton of troops
- The test
- The vulture
- The helmsman
- The top
- A little fable
- Home-coming
- First sorrow
- The departure
- Advocates
- The married couple
- Give it up!
- On parables.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Short stories. English. Complete stories.
- ISBN:
- 0805208739
- 9780805208733
- 0805210555
- 9780805210552
- OCLC:
- 18165069
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