The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, and Other Stories

Description

"Translated by Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works - including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as "The Judgment" and "The Stoker" - now includes two new stories, "First Sorrow" and "The Hunger Artist.""--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

THERE WAS a time when I went every day into a church, since a girl I was in love with knelt there in prayer for half an hour in the evening and I was able to look at her in peace.

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Other Editions

• The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, and Other StoriesPaperbackTouchstone2000-05-22
• Erzählungen und kleine ProsaSchocken Verlag1935-01-01
• Erzählungen und kleine Prosa.Schocken Books1946-01-01
• The metamorphosis, In the penal colony, and other storiesSchocken Books1988-01-01
• The metamorphosis, In the penal colony, and other storiesSchocken Books1995-01-01
• The metamorphosis, In the penal colony, and other storiesScribner Paperback Fiction1995-01-01