Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafkas stories. These translations illuminate one of this centurys most controversial writers and have made Kafkas work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as The Judgment and The Stoker -- now includes two new stories, First Sorrow and The Hunger Artist.