The Great Wall of China (short story collection)

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Language German Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1931 Page count 285 Publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch		Publication date 1931 Pages xvi+285 Author Franz Kafka Genre Short story Translator Edwin Muir

Original title Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer Published in English 1933 (1933) London, Martin Secker1946 (1946) New York, Schocken Books Similar Franz Kafka books, Short Stories

The Great Wall of China (German: Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer) 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 It was edited by Max Brod and Hans Joachim Schoeps and collected previously unpublished short stories, incomplete stories, fragments and aphorisms written by Kafka between 1917 and 1924.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.