A collection of writings by Franz Kafka, featuring the title work in which a man wakes one morning to find he has been transformed into an insect, and including "The Judgement," "In the Penal Colony," the autobiographical "Letter to His Father," and "Meditation," a series of mood-pictures.

"Winner of the 2014 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize" "Finalist for the 2013 National Jewish Book Award in History, Jewish Book Council" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014" "One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Colm Tóibín" "Longlisted for the 2014 PEN Translation Award, Pen American Center" Reiner Stach worked extensively on the definitive edition of Kafka's collected works before embarking on this three-volume...

"Kafka's Last Trial begins with Kafka's last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring himself to burn the unpublished works of the man he considered a literary genius- even a saint. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka's writing, rescuing his legacy from obscurity and physical destruction. The story of Kafka's posthumous...

"Inspired by a true story, Kafka and the Doll recounts a remarkable gesture of kindness from one of the world's most bewildering and iconic writers. In the fall of 1923, Franz Kafka encountered a distraught little girl on a walk in the park. She'd lost her doll and was inconsolable. Kafka told her the doll wasn't lost, but instead, traveling the world and having grand adventures! And to reassure her, Kafka began delivering letters from the doll to...