This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of
Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes
Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation
and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement,
written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter
of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, and The Aeroplanes
at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together,
these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the
extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.