This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches, to longer, complete tales. Together they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. Some- like `The Metamorphosis', in which Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect, or `The Judgement' written in a single night of frenzied creativity- are well known. Others are mere jottings, observations of daily life, given cameo-like artistic form through Kafka's unique perception of the world. Enigmatic and paradoxical, these represent Kafka at his most profoundly pessimistic and his most whimsicially humorous.This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches, to longer, complete tales. Together they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. Some- like `The Metamorphosis', in which Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect, or `The Judgement' written in a single night of frenzied creativity- are well known. Others are mere jottings, observations of daily life, given cameo-like artistic form through Kafka's unique perception of the world. Enigmatic and paradoxical, these represent Kafka at his most profoundly pessimistic and his most whimsicially humorous.