Wedding Preparations in the Country and Other Stories
| Book | Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | 1935 |
| Author | Franz Kafka |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Publisher Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Translated by | Ernst Kaiser, Eithne Wilkins, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir |
| Copyright Holder | Schocken Books Inc., Schocken Verlag |
| Cover Artist | Edvard Munch |
| Printed by | Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Great Britain |
| Copyright | 1935 |
| Republished | 1949 |
| Copyright | 1949 |
| Copyright | 1953 |
| Republished | 1954 |
| This Edition Published | 1978 |
| Reprinted | 1982 |
| Pages / Font | 190 pages / Linotype Lectura |
| ISBN | 0 14 00.44418 8 |
| Price | U.K. £2.50 / Aust. $4.95 |
| Chapters | Note: Pieces marked † are translated by Willa and Edwin Muir and that marked * by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins.
Wedding Preparations in the Country*
Letter to His Father*
Two Dialogues (From a work later destroyed: Description of a Struggle')†
1. Conversation with the Supplicant
2. Conversation with the Drunken Man
Meditation†
Children on a Country Road
Unmasking a Confidence Trickster
The Sudden Walk
Resolutions
Excursion into the Mountains\Bachelor's Ill Luck
The Tradesman
Absent-minded Window-gazing
The Way Home
Passers-by
On the Tram
Clothes
Rejection
Reflections for Gentlemen Jockeys
The Street Window
The Wish to be a Red Indian
The Trees
Unhappiness
The Judgement†
A Country Doctor: Short Stories†
The New Advocate
A Country Doctor
Up in the Gallery
An Old Manuscript
Before the Law
Jackals and Arabs
A Visit to a Mine
The Next Village
A Message from the Emperor
Troubles of a Householder
Eleven Sons
A Brother's Murder
A Dream
A Report to the Academy
A Hunger Artist: Four Stories†
First Sorrow
A Little Woman
A Fasting Showman
Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse-folk Note: Pieces marked † are translated by Willa and Edwin Muir and that marked * by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins.
Wedding Preparations in the Country*
Letter to His Father*
Two Dialogues (From a work later destroyed: Description of a Struggle')†
1. Conversation with the Supplicant
2. Conversation with the Drunken Man
Meditation†
Children on a Country Road
Unmasking a Confidence Trickster
The Sudden Walk
Resolutions
Excursion into the Mountains\Bachelor's Ill Luck
The Tradesman
Absent-minded Window-gazing
The Way Home
Passers-by
On the Tram
Clothes
Rejection
Reflections for Gentlemen Jockeys
The Street Window
The Wish to be a Red Indian
The Trees
Unhappiness
The Judgement†
A Country Doctor: Short Stories†
The New Advocate
A Country Doctor
Up in the Gallery
An Old Manuscript
Before the Law
Jackals and Arabs
A Visit to a Mine
The Next Village
A Message from the Emperor
Troubles of a Householder
Eleven Sons
A Brother's Murder
A Dream
A Report to the Academy
A Hunger Artist: Four Stories†
First Sorrow
A Little Woman
A Fasting Showman
Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse-folk Show all ▾ |
| Notes | Wedding Preparations in the Country (Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande, New York, 1953) and Letter to His Father (Brief an den Vater, New York, 1953) translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins and first published in Great Britain by Martin Secker & Warburg 1954 Copyright 1953 by Schocken Books, Inc. Two Dialogues (Munich, 1909), Meditation (Betrachtung, Leipzig, 1913), The Judgement (Das Urteil, Leipzig, 1919) and A Hunger Artist (Ein Hungerkünstler, Berlin, 1924) translated by Willa and Edwin Muir and first published in Great Britain by Martin Secker & Warburg 1949 Copyright 1935 by Schocken Verlag Translation copyright 1949 by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd This selection first published in Penguin Books 1978 Reprinted 1979, 1982 Made and printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk The cover shows a detail from 'Evening (Melancholy)', a woodcut by Edvard Munch, in the Munch-Museet, Oslo |

