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Before the Law

Franz Kafka

First published 1948
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Also appears in Kafka's novel The Trial.
{{Tr|Willa Muir and {{A|Edwin Muir}}}}.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1948 Cover The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces Schocken Books Collection |26
1949 Cover The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces Schocken Books Collection |26
1961 Cover The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces Schocken Books Collection 148|26
1969 Cover The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces Schocken Books Collection 148|26
1971 Cover The Complete Stories Schocken Books Collection 3
1971 Cover The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces Schocken Books Collection 148|26
1978 Cover Wedding Preparations in the Country and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection 127
December 1980 Cover Fiction of the Absurd: Pratfalls in the Void Mentor / New American Library Anthology 107
1983 Cover The Complete Stories Schocken Books Collection 3
1984 Cover Wedding Preparations in the Country and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection 127
1987 Cover Wedding Preparations in the Country and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection 127
November 1988 Cover The Book of Fantasy Viking Anthology 160
November 1988 Cover The Book of Fantasy Xanadu Anthology 160
June 1989 Cover The Book of Fantasy Viking / QPBC Anthology 160
August 1990 Cover The Book of Fantasy Black Swan Anthology
September 1990 Cover The Book of Fantasy Carroll & Graf Anthology 160
April 1992 Cover The Little Book of Horrors Xanadu Anthology 102
September 1993 Cover Collected Stories Alfred A. Knopf Collection |28
October 1995 Cover The Complete Stories Schocken Books Collection 3
2005 Cover The Complete Short Stories Vintage (UK) Collection 3
October 2012 Cover The Complete Stories Schocken Books Collection |2
January 2015 Cover Collected Stories Everyman's Library Collection |28