This collection of new translations gathers the small number of Kafka's works that he deemed worthy of publication. It includes "The Metamorphosis," his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation. Also, the "Meditation," a collection of his early studies, "The Judgment," written in one night of intense creativity, and "Amerika," the first chapter of a novel set in America. Finally, "The Aeroplanes at Brescia," Kafka's eyewitness account of an air show in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the range of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.