Metamorphosis, The Penal Colony, and Other Stories

This collection brings together the stories that Kafka allowed to be published during his lifetime. To Max Brod, his literary executor, he wrote: “Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these.”

Contents:

• Conversation with the Supplicant
• Meditation
• The Judgement
• The Metamorphosis
• A Country Doctor
• In the Penal Colony
• A Hunger Artist

Appendix:

• The First Long Train Journey, by Max Brod and Franz Kafka
• The Aeroplanes at Brescia
• Three Critical Pieces
• Epilogue by Max Brod