Wedding Preparations in the Country and Other Stories

Overview:

  • Title: Wedding Preparations in the Country and Other Stories
  • Author: Franz Kafka
  • Year: 1987
  • ISBN-10: 0140044418
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Price: £3.95
  • Pages: 190
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Jackals and Arabs
  • Notes:
    • Cover art is a detail of Munch's woodcut 'Evening: Melancholy 1', 1896.
    • Copyright page states "This selection first published in Penguin Books 1978 [over] Reprinted 1987".
    • 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.
    • Also priced A$9.95 and NZ$13.99.