Table of Contents

THE AEROPLANES AT BRESCIA
A COUNTRY DOCTOR: LITTLE TALES
The New Advocate
A Country Doctor
In the Gallery
An Ancient Manuscript
Before the Law
Jackals and Arabs
A Visit to the Mine
The Next Village
A Message from the Emperor
Odradek, or Cares of a Householder
Eleven Sons
A Brother's Murder
A Dream
A Report to an Academy
THE RIDER ON THE COAL-SCUTTLE
A HUNGER ARTIST: FOUR STORIES
First Sorrow
A Little Woman
A Hunger Artist
Josefine, the Singer or the Mouse-People
BLUMFELD, AN ELDERLY BACHELOR
AT THE BUILDING OF THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
THE HUNTSMAN GRACCHUS
INVESTIGATIONS OF A DOG
THE BURROW
SELECTED SHORTER PIECES
The Bridge
The Knock on the Courtyard Gate
TheTruth about Sancho Panza
The Spinning-Top
Cat and Mouse
On Parables
Give it up!
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About the Author

Joyce Crick taught German at University College London until her retirement. She has written on Kafka's first English translators, Willa and Edwin Muir, and for OWC she has translated Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Grimms' Selected Tales, and Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, winner of the Shlegel-Tieck Prize in 2000. Ritchie Robertson is the author of the Very Short Introduction to Kafka. For OWC he has
translated Hofmann's The Golden Pot and Other Stories and introduced and annotated editions of Kafka, Freud, and Schnitzler. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann.