
A Country Doctor and Other Stories
Author: Franz Kafka
Series: The Franz Kafka Library
Narrator: AI Voice F. Hearts
Unabridged: 3 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Sonictale Studios
Published: 10/28/2026
Categories: Fiction, World Literature
Synopsis
Sixteen short stories by Franz Kafka, complete and unabridged. In the Penal Colony brings a visiting traveller before an officer who is proud of the machine that carves each prisoner's sentence into his body. The Judgment sets a young merchant against his aged father. In the title story, a country doctor called out on a winter night finds a house where nothing is as it seems.
A Report for an Academy lets an ape explain how he became a man. Before the Law, An Imperial Message, Jackals and Arabs, A Visit to the Mine and A Dream are among the shortest and strangest pieces Kafka published, each one a small fable that refuses to explain itself.
Most of these stories first appeared in Kafka's own lifetime, in the collections he saw through to print, and they remain the best place to meet his writing: dry, exact and unsettling. This new translation reads every story in full.