Wedding Preparations in the Country and Other Stories
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Overview:
- Title: Wedding Preparations in the Country and Other Stories
- Author: Franz Kafka
- Year: 1978
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Jackals and Arabs
- Notes:
- Cover art is a detail of Munch's woodcut 'Evening: Melancholy 1', 1896.
- Contents from the 1987 reprint.
- 'Conversation with the Suppliant' and 'Conversation with the Drunken Man' appear under the heading "Two Dialogues (from a work later destroyed: 'Description of a Struggle')". Contains the stories in the collection Meditation from pages 87–106, the stories in the collection A Country Doctor from pages 118–155, and the stories in the collection A Hunger Artist from page 156–190.
- 'Wedding Preparations in the Country' and 'Letter to His Father' translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, first published by Secker & Warburg, 1954.
- 'Two Dialogues', 'The Judgement' and the contents of Meditation, A Country Doctor and A Hunger Artist translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, first published by Secker & Warburg, 1949.