Note: • The publisher Kurt Wolff recollects the print run in his memoirs as circa 1,000 copies, which is supported in this essay. • This essay also states the four different initial editions. • The collection was accepted for publication in the Summer of 1917; thus, there was a lapse of almost three years until its actual publication. • The first English translation of this collection appeared in the larger collection The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces in 1948, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir.