Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings

First edition

Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings is a collection of writings by Franz Kafka translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins with notes by Max Brod (Schocken Books, 1954). The title derives from Kafka's Letter to His Father, which begins with this salutation.

Wedding Preparations in the Country
Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way
The Eight Octavo Notebooks
Letter to His Father
Fragments from Notebooks and Loose Pages
Paralipomena (text variants and supplementary literary material)
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Works by Franz Kafka

Novels

Der Process (The Trial)
Das Schloss (The Castle)
Amerika

Short stories

1902–12	"Shamefaced Lanky and Impure in Heart" "Description of a Struggle" "Wedding Preparations in the Country" "Das Urteil" ("The Judgement") "The Stoker" "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis") "The Aeroplanes At Brescia"

1914–17	"In the Penal Colony" "The Village Schoolmaster" ("The Giant Mole") "Before the Law" "Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor" "The Warden of the Tomb" "A Country Doctor" "The Hunter Gracchus" "The Great Wall of China" "A Message from the Emperor" "A Report to an Academy" "A Dream" "Up in the Gallery" "A Fratricide" "The Next Village" "A Visit to a Mine" "Jackals and Arabs" "The Bridge" "The Bucket Rider" "The New Advocate" "An Old Manuscript" "The Knock at the Manor Gate" "Eleven Sons" "My Neighbor" "A Crossbreed" "The Cares of a Family Man"

1917–23	"The Refusal" "A Hunger Artist" "Investigations of a Dog" "A Little Woman" "The Burrow" "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk" "A Common Confusion" "The Truth about Sancho Panza" "The Silence of the Sirens" "Prometheus" "The City Coat of Arms" "Poseidon" "Fellowship" "At Night" "The Problem of Our Laws" "The Conscription of Troops" "The Test" "The Vulture" "The Helmsman" "The Top" "A Little Fable" "Home-Coming" "First Sorrow" "The Departure" "Advocates" "The Married Couple" "Give It Up!" "On Parables"

Short story
collections

Betrachtung (Contemplation) (1912)
Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor) (1919)
Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist) (1924)
Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (The Great Wall of China) (1931)
The Complete Stories
The Sons
The Penal Colony
Parables and Paradoxes
Dearest Father
Description of a Struggle

Diaries and
notebooks

Letters

Professional
writings

The Office Writings

Bibliography

Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings

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