Best Short Stories
- ISBN-10
- 0486295613
- ISBN-13
- 9780486295619
- Series
- Best Short Stories
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 191
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-01-01
- Publisher
- Courier Corporation
- Authors
- Stanley Appelbaum, Franz Kafka
Description
Five great stories in original German with new, literal English translations on facing pages: "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy."
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