Contents

• Before the law
• An imperial message
• Description of a struggle
• Wedding preparations in the country
• The judgment
• The metamorphosis
• In the penal colony
• The village schoolmaster [The giant mole]
• Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor
• The warden of the tomb
• A country doctor
• The hunter Gracchus
• The hunter Gracchus : a fragment
• The great wall of China
• The news of the building of the wall : a fragment
• A report to an academy
• A report to an academy : two fragments
• The refusal
• A hunger artist
• Investigations of a dog
• A little woman
• The burrow
• Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk
• 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 - - A dream
• Up in the gallery
• A fratricide
• The next village
• A visit to a mine
• Jackals and Arabs
• The bridge
• The bucket rider
• The new advocate
• An old manuscript
• The knock at the manor gate
• Eleven sons - - My neighbor
• A crossbreed [A sport]
• The cares of a family man
• A common confusion
• The truth about Sancho Panza
• The silence of the Sirens
• Prometheus
• The city coat of arms
• Poseidon
• Fellowship
• At night
• The problem of our laws
• The conscription of troops
• The test
• The vulture
• The helmsman
• The top
• A little fable
• Home-coming
• First sorrow
• The departure
• Advocates
• The married couple
• Give it up!
• On parables