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The Country Doctor and Other Stories

Franz Kafka

The Country Doctor and Other Stories

Paper book: €17.99

Digital: €5.99

Original publication
1919
Bilingual edition
22 October 2026
Pages
139
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Philosophy, Psychology
Moods
Get the chills, Think it through, Understand myself
Translated from
German

Book summary

Called out at night in a snowstorm, a country doctor has no horse to make the journey. In a penal colony, an officer proudly shows a visitor a strange execution machine. A hunger artist goes weeks without eating in his cage, while the crowd slowly loses interest.

In these three unsettling stories by Kafka, everyday life tips into nightmare without warning, and you do not forget them.

Short and written in precise sentences, they can each be read in one sitting in the language you are learning.

The plot

A Snowy Night, a Doctor Without a Horse. One winter night, a country doctor has to go and see a gravely ill patient in a distant village. A snowstorm is raging, and he has no horse left.

The world of the book

A Doctor for a Whole District. In central Europe in the early 20th century, many villages have neither a doctor nor a telephone. The country doctor is employed by the district, and often poorly paid. He is called at…

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