The Greatest Works of Franz Kafka

includes index and biblioraphy

The Trial Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach- Then Miss Burstner ......9 First Cross- Examination ...........35 In the Empty Courtroom - The Student- Offices ......50 Miss Burstner`s Friend........71 The Whip-Man......78 K`s Uncle- Leni.......85 Lawyer- Manufacturer- Painter ....104 Block, The businessman - Dismissing the Lawyer......150 In the Cathedral .........177 End .......198 2. The Longer Stories Description of a Struggle .......205 Wedding Preparations in the Country .........247 The judgement ......271 The metamorphosis ...........282 In the penal Colony..........332 The village schoolmaster ...360 Blumfeld , An elderly Bachelor ........374 The warden of the Tomb......396 A country Doctor..........410 The Hunter Gracchus: A fragment .........421 The Great wall of China .........425 A fragment ...........438 A report to an Academy ....440 A report to an Academy : Two Fragments ........449 3. The Shorter Stories Children on a Country Road .................455 Excursion into the mountains ........460 Rejection .......461 The Street window ........462 The Tradeesman ............463 Absent-Minded Window-Gazing ..........465 The way home ........466 Passers-By.......467 On the Tram ..........468 Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys........469 The wish to be a Red Indian ..........470 Unhappiness..........471 Bachelor`s Ill Luck ..........475 Unmaking a Confidence trickster ..........476 The Sudden walk .........478 Resolutions ..............479 A dream ............480 Up in the Gallery .........483 A fratricide .........485 The Next village ............488 A visit to a Mine .........489 Jackals and Arabs ..........492 The Bridge .....496 The Bucket Rider ........497 The new Advocate .........500 The knock at the Manor Gate .........504 Eleven Sons ...........506 My neighbor .......511 A crossbreed ......513 The cares of a Family Man .........515 The truth about sancho Panza .........518 The silence of the Sirens .........519 The city coat of Arms ......522 Poseidon...............524 Fellowship............526 At Night .................527 The problem of our Laws ......528 The conscription of Troops ......530 The Test .......533 The vulture ...........535 The Helmsman .........536 The Top ..........537 A little Fable .........538 Home-Coming .......539 First Sorrow .......540 The departure .......543 Advocates ......544 The married Couple .........547 Give it up ..........552 On Parables ........553