Kafka's stories are not only key texts of modernity, they still amaze and fascinate readers today. The selection includes all important works, Kafka's early prose about the collection Meditation, the great stories The Judgment, The Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony, the later collections A Country Doctor and A Hunger Artist. These texts were all put into print by Kafka himself. He was also able to initiate the publication of A Hunger Artist before he died on June 3, 1924 at the age of 40. – With a compact biography of the author