num_pages: 352
description: Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as "The Judgment" and "The Stoker" -- now includes two new stories, "First Sorrow" and "The Hunger Artist."
language: English
title: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka
titlecomplete: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, Philosophy, School, Literature, Horror, German Literature, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction
ratings_count: 19053
publisher: Scribner