The Great Wall of China and other Stories

Franz Kafka
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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.
Genres: FictionShort StoriesClassicsGerman LiteratureLiteraturePhilosophyNovelsChina20th CenturyAudiobook
240 Pages

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