num_pages: 240
description: Drawing directly on original manuscripts, this collection comprises the major short stories published after Kafka’s death. It includes The Great Wall of China, Blumfeld, An Elderly Bachelor, Investigations of a Dog and his great sequences of aphorisms, with fables and parables on subjects ranging from the legend of Prometheus to the Tower of Babel. Allegorical, disturbing and possessing a dream-like clarity, these writings are quintessential Kafka.
language: English
title: The Great Wall of China and other Stories
titlecomplete: The Great Wall of China and other Stories
genres: Classics, China, Philosophy, Short Stories, Novels, German Literature, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction, Czech Literature
ratings_count: 1300
publisher: Penguin Classic