Letters to Friends,

Family and Editors

Franz Kafka
Translated by Richard and Clara Winston

ONEWORLD
CLASSICS
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First published in the USA by Schocken Books Inc. in 1977

First published in the UK by John Calder (Publishers) Ltd in 1978
First published by Oneworld Classics Ltd in 2011
Translation and notes © Schocken Books Inc., 1958, 1977

Printed in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe

isbn: 978-1-84749-194-7

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 Contents
Letters to Friends, Family and Editors
Publisher’s Note ix
1900 1
1902 1
1903 7
1904 13
1905 19
1906 20
1907 23
1908 40
1909 50
1910 62
1911 71
1912 76
1913 93
1914 105
1915 111
1916 115
1917 129
1918 185
1919 211
1920 222
1921 248
1922 317
1923 368
1924 403
Conversation Slips 416
Notes 424
Chronology 496
Index 502
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