Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories

How many writers get their own adjective? The work of this terminally alienated master narrator of the subconscious demanded a new descriptor; I guess they gave up and just settled on "Kafkaesque." But if you ever wonder what the original Kafkaesque work was, take a look here. The book contains all of Kafka's short and longer stories -- everything but his three novels. Most of these stories weren't even published during the author's lifetime. The widely-anthologized The Metamorphosis is here, wherein Gregor Samsa awakes from uneasy dreams to find himself insectoidally transformed, as are equally lovely pieces like A Hunger Artist, A Country Doctor and A Little Woman.

• The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text (The Schocken Kafka Library)
• The Castle
• Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text (The Schocken Kafka Library)
• The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (Penguin Classics)
• The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923 (The Schocken Kafka Library)
• I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition (Martin Luther King, Jr., born January 15, 1929)
• Three Golden Keys, The
• The Garden Party: and Other Plays (Havel, Vaclav)
• Prague: A Cultural History (Interlink Cultural Histories) (Cities of the Imagination)
• The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol