So, anyways, I compiled the chapter list here. Besides, for a few of them, there are a couple of chapters bundled together in a single audible chapter. And neither could I find this particular book edition online anywhere to get the list of chapters. The one frustration with the audio book was that no where in the description or chapters do we find the list of stories. I have listened to his narration of Trial as well and the man's voice lends the perfect amount of mystery to Kafka's stories. George Guidall is just spectacular with the narration. Also, a couple of stories from The Trial find it's way here. And what the sour grapejuice was going on in Jackal and Arabs, and conversation with a worshipper (which is apparently called as conversation with a supplicant, in other translations). Seriously, I have no clue what was Eleven Sons about. But even by his standards a few stories are bizarre. Others are all right, and an insight in the quirky Kafka mind. back from the days when wrestling had only one big-ticket match in the day.) Then the couple of other memorable stories are The Penal Colony, and The Stoker, Report for an Academy. Metamorphosis is the big famous story among the collections, of course. passages.? Really, there is no better way to describe them. It is a mix of proper "stories", random ruminations - some of them only a minute long, and some really weird. The stories in this book are a strange assortment.
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