Wedding Preparations in the Country and Other Stories

Overview:

• Title: Wedding Preparations in the Country and Other Stories
• Author: Franz Kafka
• Year: 1984
• ISBN-10: 0140044418
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Price: £2.95
• Pages: 190
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Collection
• Title Reference: Jackals and Arabs
• Notes:
  • Date of this printing from copyright page.
  • Alternate prices: Aust $5.95, N.Z. $10.95
  • Cover art is a detail of Munch's woodcut 'Evening: Melancholy 1', 1896.
  • "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.
  • "Letter to His Father" is followed by notes by Max Brod
  • "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.