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The City Coat of Arms

Franz Kafka

First published 1933
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Historical speculative fiction, using the Tower of Babel as a metaphor.
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Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1933 Cover The Great Wall of China and Other Pieces Martin Secker Collection 224
1946 Cover Strange to Tell: Stories of the Marvelous and Mysterious Julian Messner Anthology 427
October 1946 The Great Wall of China: Stories and Reflections Schocken Books Collection 245
1947 Parables in German and English Schocken Books Collection 31|31.2
March 1948 The Great Wall of China: Stories and Reflections Schocken Books Collection 245
1961 Cover Parables and Paradoxes / Parabeln und Paradoxe Schocken Books Collection 37
1971 Cover The Complete Stories Schocken Books Collection 433
1980 Cover Angels and Awakenings Doubleday Anthology 213
1983 Cover The Complete Stories Schocken Books Collection 433
June 1985 Cover The Apocalypse Anthology Rowan Tree Press Anthology 19
September 1993 Cover Collected Stories Alfred A. Knopf Collection |64
November 1994 Cover Angels and Awakenings Doubleday Anthology 213
October 1995 Cover The Complete Stories Schocken Books Collection 433
2005 Cover The Complete Short Stories Vintage (UK) Collection 433
October 2012 Cover The Complete Stories Schocken Books Collection |62
January 2015 Cover Collected Stories Everyman's Library Collection |64