From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century the author of The Trial Three stories he published in his lifetime including his best-known tale The Metamorphosis. I have only one request Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. The Stoker The Metamorphosis and The Judgment belong together both inwardly and outwardly. There is an obvious connection among the three and even more important a secret one for which reason I would be reluctant to forego the chance of having them published together in a book which might be called The Sons.