# The Great Wall of China

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- Book: [The Great Wall of China](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka/the-great-wall-of-china) ([The Great Wall of China.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka/the-great-wall-of-china.md))
- Authors: [Franz Kafka](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-358-2
- Published: 2007-01-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Drawing directly on original manuscripts, this collection comprises the major short stories published after Kafka’s death. It includes The Great Wall of China, Blumfeld, An Elderly Bachelor, Investigations of a Dog and his great sequences of aphorisms, with fables and parables on subjects ranging from the legend of Prometheus to the Tower of Babel. Allegorical, disturbing and possessing a dream-like clarity, these writings are quintessential Kafka.