Title: Before the Law

Title: Before the Law Title Record # 1405482
Author: Franz Kafka
Date: 1948-00-00
Variant Title of: Vor dem Gesetz [German] (1915) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: records.viu.ca, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: Also appears in Kafka's novel The Trial. Translated by Willa Muir and Edwin Muir.

Synopsis: A man from the country seeks the law and wishes to gain entry to the law through an open doorway, but the doorkeeper tells the man that he cannot go through at the present time. (Wikipedia)

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Publications

Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces	1948-00-00	Franz Kafka	Schocken Books			320	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces	1949-00-00	Franz Kafka	Schocken Books			320	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces	1961-00-00	Franz Kafka	Schocken Books (Schocken Paperbacks #4)		$1.95^?$: US dollar	317	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces	1969-00-00	Franz Kafka	Schocken Books (Schocken Paperbacks #4)			317	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces	1971-00-00	Franz Kafka	Schocken Books (Schocken Paperbacks #4)		$2.45^?$: US dollar	317	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Complete Stories	1971-00-00	Franz Kafka	Schocken Books	0-8052-3419-5		486	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Wedding Preparations in the Country and Other Stories	1978-00-00	Franz Kafka	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)				tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Edvard Munch
The Complete Stories	1983-00-00	Franz Kafka	Schocken Books	0-8052-3863-8	$22.50^?$: US dollar	xxi+ 486	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Wedding Preparations in the Country and Other Stories	1984-00-00	Franz Kafka	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)	0-14-004441-8	£2.95^?£: UK pound	190	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Edvard Munch
Wedding Preparations in the Country and Other Stories	1987-00-00	Franz Kafka	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)	0-14-004441-8	£3.95^?£: UK pound	190	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Edvard Munch
The Book of Fantasy	1988-11-00	ed. Jorge Luis Borges, A. Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo	Xanadu	0-947761-44-6	£14.95^?£: UK pound	384	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Book of Fantasy	1988-11-00	ed. Jorge Luis Borges, A. Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo	Viking	0-670-82393-7	$19.95^?$: US dollar	384	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Book of Fantasy	1989-06-00	ed. Jorge Luis Borges, A. Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo	Viking / QPBC		$9.95^?$: US dollar	384	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
The Book of Fantasy	1990-08-00	ed. Jorge Luis Borges, A. Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo	Black Swan	0-552-99401-4	£5.99^?£: UK pound	523	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Stephen Player
The Book of Fantasy	1990-09-00	ed. Jorge Luis Borges, A. Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo	Carroll & Graf	0-88184-656-2	$10.95^?$: US dollar	384	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror	1992-04-00	ed. Sebastian Wolfe	Xanadu	0-947761-45-4	£6.99^?£: UK pound	124	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
Collected Stories	1993-09-16	Franz Kafka	Alfred A. Knopf (Everyman's Library)	1-85715-145-3		503	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Complete Stories	1995-10-00	Franz Kafka	Schocken Books (Schocken Kafka Library)	0-8052-1055-5	$15.00^?$: US dollar	xxi+ 486	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Complete Short Stories	2005-00-00	Franz Kafka	Vintage (UK) (Vintage Classics)	978-0-7493-9946-7	£9.99^?£: UK pound	vii+ 486	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Anna Crone
The Complete Stories	2012-10-24	Franz Kafka	Schocken Books	978-0-307-82945-0	$12.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Collected Stories	2015-01-28	Franz Kafka	Everyman's Library	978-0-375-71269-2	$12.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Collected Stories	date unknown	Franz Kafka	Alfred A. Knopf	978-0-679-42303-4			ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll

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Reviews

Review by Peter Young (2015) in Big Sky, #5: Hotel Catatonia