The Great Wall of China () is the first posthumous collection of short stories by Franz Kafka published in Germany in 1931. It was edited by Max Brod and Hans Joachim Schoeps and collected previously unpublished short stories, incomplete stories, fragments and aphorisms written by Kafka between 1917 and 1924. The first English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in 1933. The same translation was published in 1946 by Schocken Books.
Contents
Introductory note by Edwin Muir
Longer Stories
Investigations of a Dog
The Burrow
The Great Wall of China
The Giant Mole
Short Stories and Fables
The Hunter Gracchus
The Married Couple
My Neighbor
A Common Confusion
The Bridge
The Bucket Rider
A Crossbreed
The Knock at the Manor Gate
The City Coat of Arms
The Silence of the Sirens
Prometheus
The Truth about Sancho Panza
The Problem of Our Laws
On Parables
A Little Fable
Aphorisms
"He" Reflections on Sin, Pain, Hope, and the True Way
Publication history (in English)
1933 London: Martin Secker, xvi+285 pp., hardcover; first UK edition, subtitled and Other Pieces 1946 London: Secker and Warburg, 159 pp., hardcover; Revised and reset edition 1946 New York: Schocken Books, xix+315 pp., hardcover; first US edition, subtitled Stories and Reflections