| Description |
xxi, 486 pages ; 21 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Schocken Kafka Library |
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Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
Works. English. 1990.
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| Note |
Foreword by John Updike dated 1995. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-464). |
| Contents |
Before the law -- An imperial message -- Description of a struggle -- Wedding preparations in the country -- The judgment -- The metamorphosis -- In the penal colony -- The village schoolmaster (The giant mole) -- Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor -- The warden of the tomb -- A country doctor -- The hunter Gracchus -- The hunter Gracchus: a fragment -- The Great Wall of China -- The news of the building of the wall: a gragment -- A report to an academy -- A report to an academy: two fragments -- The refusal -- A hunger artist -- Investigations of a dog -- A 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 conscription 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. |
| Summary |
Presents the complete writings and includes a chronology of Kafka's life and a selected bibliography of critical writings. |
| Subject |
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Translations into English.
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Short stories, Austrian -- Translations into English.
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| Added Author |
Glatzer, Nahum N. (Nahum Norbert), 1903-1990, editor.
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| Added Title |
Short stories. English
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| ISBN |
0805210555 |
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9780805210552 |
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