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Selected short stories of Franz Kafka
Uniform Title
Short stories. Selections. English
Title
Selected short stories of Franz Kafka / translated by Willa and Edwin Muir ; introduction by Philip Rahv.
ISBN
0394604229
9780394604220
Publication
New York : Modern Library, [between 1952 and 1963?]
Copyright Notice Date
©1952
Physical Description
xxii, 328 pages ; 19 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Tanselle Z41 0128: With dust jacket, circa 1954 (based on list of titles printed inside jacket). Bookplate of George Thomas Tanselle.
Notes
"Manufactured in the United States of America; Printed by Parkway Printing Company; Bound by H. Wolff"--Title page verso.
Probable date of publication based on typesetting of title page and binding style (Blumenthal binding, in use until 1963).
Summary
Fifteen of Kafka's best known stories including the Metamorphosis, the Penal Colony and the Great Wall of China.
Other formats
Online version: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Short stories. English. Selections. Selected short stories of Franz Kafka. [1st Modern Library ed.]. New York : Modern Library, ©1952
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 18, 2024
Series
The Modern library of the world's best books ; [no. 283]
Contents
The judgment
The metamorphosis
In the penal colony
The Great Wall of China
A country doctor
A common confusion
The new advocate
An old manuscript
A fratricide
A report to an academy
The hunter Gracchus
A hunger artist
Investigations of a dog
The burrow
Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Fiction.
Short stories.
Translations.
Short stories.
Fiction.
Also listed under
Modern Library (Firm), publisher.
Parkway Printing Company, printer.
H. Wolff, Inc., binder.
United States New York (State) New York.
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