• Publication: Die SöhnePublication Record # 511571
• Author: Franz Kafka
• Date: 1989-08-00
• ISBN: 3-596-29501-7 [978-3-596-29501-2]
• Publisher: Fischer Taschenbuch
• Pub. Series: Fischer Taschenbücher
• Pub. Series #: 9501
• Price:
  DM 9.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
• Pages: 160
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: Die Söhne by Manfred Walch
• Notes:

  • First edition, first printing.
  • Editor: Michael Müller.
  • The letters and diary excerpts are facsimile reproductions.
  • Likely print run: 10.000 copies (presumed that the 1992 printing is the second one).
  • The table of contents appears on p. 5.
  • The shortfictions and the afterword have their respective own title pages.
  • On pp. 159 & 160 appears a biographical scetch.
  • Data from Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
  • Details (including the month of publication) from the November 1993 printing.
  • The cover art is likely also by Walch (as in later printings).

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 7 • Brief Kafkas vom 11. IV. 1913 an Kurt Wolff • (1958) • essay by Franz Kafka
• 11 • Das Urteil • (1913) • short story by Franz Kafka
• 27 • Der Heizer: Ein Fragment • [Karl Roßmann] • (1913) • novelette by Franz Kafka
• 65 • Die Verwandlung • [Gregor Samsa • 1] • (1915) • novella by Franz Kafka
• 133 • Nachwort des Herausgebers (Die Söhne) • essay by Michael Müller
• 151 • Brief Kafkas vom 4. IV. 1913 an Kurt Wolff • (1958) • essay by Franz Kafka
• 154 • Tagebucheintragung vom 23. IX. 1912 • (1949) • essay by Franz Kafka
• 156 • Tagebucheintragung vom 11. II. 1913 • (1949) • essay by Franz Kafka
• 158 • Tagebucheintragung vom 12. II. 1913 • (1949) • essay by Franz Kafka