The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces is a collection of short stories and recollections by Franz Kafka, with additional writings by Max Brod. First published in 1948 by Schocken Books, this volume includes all the works Kafka intended for publication, and published during his lifetime (the only exception is "The Stoker", which serves as a first chapter for the novel Amerika). It also includes critical pieces by Kafka, "The First Long Train Journey" by Kafka and Brod (which was initially intended to be the first chapter of a book), and an Epilogue by Brod. The collection was translated by Willa and Edwin Muir.
Contents Conversation with the Supplicant a slightly different version from the text of the dialogue as it appears in the story Description of a Struggle Meditation Children on a Country Road The Trees Clothes Excursion into the Mountains Rejection The Street Window The Tradesman Absent-minded Window-gazing The Way Home Passers-by On the Tram Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys The Wish to be a Red Indian Unhappiness Bachelor's Ill Luck Unmasking a Confidence Trickster The Sudden Walk Resolutions The Judgment The Metamorphosis A Country Doctor The New Advocate A Country Doctor Up in the Gallery An Old Manuscript Before the Law Jackals and Arabs A Visit to a Mine The Next Village An Imperial Message The Cares of a Family Man Eleven Sons A Fratricide A Dream A Report to an Academy The Bucket Rider In the Penal Colony A Hunger Artist First Sorrow A Little Woman A Hunger Artist Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk Appendix The First Long Train Journey - by Kafka and Brod The Aeroplanes at Brescia Three Critical Pieces A Novel about Youth - Review of Felix Sternheim's Die Geschichte des jungen Oswald On Kleist's "Anecdotes" Hyperion - Review of the literary magazine Epilogue by Max Brod
References
Kafka, Franz. The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces. New York: Schocken Books, 1948.