This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka¿s works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes <i>Metamorphosis</i>, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; <i>Meditation</i>, a collection of his earlier studies; <i>The Judgement</i>, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; <i>The Stoker</i>, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, <i>The Aeroplanes at Brescia</i>, Kafka¿s eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka¿s literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.