The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and other stories

Contents Foreword by Anne Rice 1 Conversation with the Supplicant 9 Meditation Children on a Country Road 21 Unmasking a Confidence Trickster 25 The Sudden Walk 27 Resolutions 28 Excursion into the Mountains 29 Bachelor's Ill Luck 30 The Tradesman 31 Absent-minded Window-gazing 33 The Way Home 34 Passers-by 34 On the Tram 35 Clothes 36 Rejection 37 Reflections for Gentlemen-jockeys 37 The Street Window 39 The Wish to Be a Red Indian 39 The Trees 39 Unhappiness 40 The Judgment 49 The Metamorphosis 67 A Country Doctor The New Advocate 135 A Country Doctor 136 Up in the Gallery 144 An Old Manuscript 145 Before the Law 148 Jackals and Arabs 150 A Visit to a Mine 155 The Next Village 158 An Imperial Message 158 The Cares of a Family Man 160 Eleven Sons 161 A Fratricide 167 A Dream 170 A Report to an Academy 173 The Bucket Rider 184 In the Penal Colony 191 A Hunger Artist First Sorrow 231 A Little Woman 234 A Hunger Artist 243 Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk 256 Appendix The First Long Train Journey, by Max Brod and Franz Kafka 279 The Aeroplanes at Brescia 297 Three Critical Pieces 307 Epilogue by Max Brod 310 316