The best-known novellas and stories of one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century. Included are The Judgment, A Country Doctor, and A Hunger Artist. New Foreword by Anne Rice. The best-known novellas and stories of one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century. Included are The Judgment, A Country Doctor, and A Hunger Artist. New Foreword by Anne Rice. Foreword 1(8) Anne Rice Conversation with the Supplicant 9(12) Meditation 21(28) Children on a Country Road 21(4) Unmasking a Confidence Trickster 25(2) The Sudden Walk 27(1) Resolutions 28(1) Excursion into the Mountains 29(1) Bachelor's Ill Luck 30(1) The Tradesman 31(2) Absent-minded Window-gazing 33(1) The Way Home 34(1) Passers-by 34(1) On the Tram 35(1) Clothes 36(1) Rejection 37(1) Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys 37(2) The Street Window 39(1) The Wish to Be a Red Indian 39(1) The Trees 39(1) Unhappiness 40(9) The Judgment 49(18) The Metamorphosis 67(68) A Country Doctor 135(56) The New Advocate 135(1) A Country Doctor 136(8) Up in the Gallery 144(1) An Old Manuscript 145(3) Before the Law 148(2) Jackals and Arabs 150(5) A Visit to a Mine 155(3) The Next Village 158(1) An Imperial Message 158(2) The Cares of a Family Man 160(1) Eleven Sons 161(6) A Fratricide 167(3) A Dream 170(3) A Report to an Academy 173(11) The Bucket Rider 184(7) In the Penal Colony 191(40) A Hunger Artist 231(48) First Sorrow 231(3) A Little Woman 234(9) A Hunger Artist 243(13) Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk 256(23) Appendix 279 The First Long Train Journey 279(18) Max Brod Franz Kafka The Aeroplanes at Brescia 297(13) Three Critical Pieces 310(6) Epilogue 316 Max Brod