Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

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Selected Works:

Short stories:

Description of a Struggle - Beschreibung eines Kampfes, 1904-1905
Wedding Preparations in the Country - Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande, 1907-1908
Contemplation - Betrachtung, 1904-1912
The Judgment - Das Urteil - 22-23 September 1912
The Stoker
In the Penal Colony - In der Strafkolonie, October 1914
The Village Schoolmaster - The Giant Mole - Der Dorfschullehrer or Der Riesenmaulwurf, 1914-1915
Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor - Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle, 1915
The Warden of the Tomb - Der Gruftwächter, 1916-1917, the only play Kafka wrote
The Hunter Gracchus - Der Jäger Gracchus, 1917
The Great Wall of China - Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer, 1917
A Report to an Academy - Ein Bericht für eine Akademie, 1917
Jackals and Arabs - Schakale und Araber, 1917
A Country Doctor - Ein Landarzt, 1919
A Message from the Emperor - Eine kaiserliche Botschaft, 1919
An Old Leaf - Ein altes Blatt, 1919
The Refusal - Die Abweisung, 1920
A Hunger Artist - Ein Hungerkünstler, 1924
Investigations of a Dog - Forschungen eines Hundes, 1922
A Little Woman - Eine kleine Frau, 1923
First Sorrow - Erstes Leid, 1921-1922
The Burrow - Der Bau, 1923-1924
Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk - Josephine, die Sängerin, oder Das Volk der Mäuse, 1924

Many collections of the stories have been published, and they include:

The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces - 1948.
The Complete Stories, - ed. Nahum N. Glatzer - 1971.
The Basic Kafka. - 1979.
The Sons. - 1989.
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories - 1995.
Contemplation. Twisted Spoon Press, 1998.
Metamorphosis and Other Stories - 2007

Novellas:

The Metamorphosis - Die Verwandlung - November-December 1915

Novels:

The Trial - Der Prozeß - 1925 - includes short story Before the Law
The Castle - Das Schloß - 1926
Amerika - Amerika or Der Verschollene - 1927

Diaries and notebooks:

Diaries 1910-1923
The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Letters:

Letter to His Father
Letters to Felice
Letters to Ottla
Letters to Milena
Letters to Family, Friends, and Editors.                          

Mother Julie
Father Hermann Kafka, Franz being the eldest of six children, Franz, Georg and Heinrich, who died at the ages of fifteen months and six months, respectively, before Franz was seven, and three younger sisters, Gabriele, Valerie and Ottilie.                          

Franz's sisters were sent with their families to the Łódź Ghetto and died there or in concentration camps. Ottla was sent to the concentration camp at Theresienstadt and then on 7 October 1943 to the death camp at Auschwitz, where 1267 children and 51 guardians, including Ottla, were gassed to death on their arrival.