A Little Fable
 A Little Fable (German: Kleine Fabel) is a short story written by Franz Kafka between 1917 and 1923 likely in 1920. The anecdote only one paragraph in length was not published in Kafka's lifetime and first appeared in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (1931). The first English translation translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933. It appeared in The Great Wall of China. Stories and Reflections (New York: Schocken Books 1946).