One of the most important authors of the 20th century, Franz Kafka was a man who lived fully through his work, who attacked with stunning craft and powerful vision the bureaucratic world he hated.

Now, published together for the first time, here are selections from all of Kafka's writings: his longer pieces (“The Metamorphosis,” “Josephine the Singer”), his short stories, parables and his personal diaries and letters. This collection stands as the most complete picture of Kafka ever shown, as one of the most influential writers--and complex men--of our time.

• Introduction by Erich Heller
• Chronology
• The Metamorphosis
• The Judgment
• The Great Wall of China
• A Hunger Artist
• The Burrow
• Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk
• A Fratricide
• The Next Village
• The Bucket Rider
• Prometheus
• Poseidon
• The Problem of Our Laws
• A Little Fable
• Give it Up!
• On Parables
• An Imperial Message
• A Country Doctor
• The Great Wall and the Tower of Babel
• Paradise
• The Tower of Babel
• The Pit of Babel
• Abraham
• Mount Sinai
• Before the Law
• The Coming of the Messiah
• The Emperor
• The Cell
• The Tiger
• Couriers
• My Destination
• Letter to His Father
• Reflections on Sin, Pain, Hope, and The True Way
• The Wish to Be a Red Indian
• The Truth About Sancho Panza
• The News of the Building of the Wall
• A Report to an Academy
• Selections from Diaries, 1911-1923
• Selections from Lettersr to Milena
• Selections from Letters to Felice
• Selections from Letters to Friends