By Franz Kafka
Twelve of Kafka’s tales from the compilation Ein Landarzt (A nation health practitioner) appear the following, besides stories from Ein Hungerkünstler (A starvation Artist). Rilke's tales comprise "Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke" (The Ballad of affection and dying of Cornet Christoph Rilke), "Die Turnstunde" (The health club Class), and Geschichten vom lieben Gott (Stories concerning the reliable Lord).
Stanley Appelbaum has supplied an advent and informative notes to those tales, in addition to very good new English translations at the pages dealing with the unique German.
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