The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text

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Originally published in Germany as Das Schloss by Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munich, 1926, and by Schocken Verlag, Berlin, 1935. Copyright © 1926 by Kurt Wolff Verlag, copyright renewed 1954 by Schocken Books Inc. This critical edition was originally published in Germany by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, in 1982, and subsequently revised in 1990. Copyright © 1982 by Schocken Books Inc. Afterword to the German critical edition copyright © 1990 by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main. This translation was originally published in hardcover by Schocken books Inc., New York, in 1998.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kafka, Franz, 1883–1924.
[Das Schloss. English]
The castle / Franz Kafka; a new translation, based on the restored text; translated and with a preface by Mark Harman.
p.   cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-82948-1
I. Harman, Mark.  II. Title.
PT2621.A26S33     1998
833’.912—dc21                              97-18117

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