The Great Wall of China (short story collection)

{{short description|1931 short story collection by Franz Kafka}}

{{Infobox book |

| name = The Great Wall of China

| title_orig = Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer

| orig_lang_code = de

| image = Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer 1st edition cover.jpg

| caption = First edition

| author = Franz Kafka

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| cover_artist =

| translator = Willa and Edwin Muir

| country =

| language = German

| series =

| genre = Short stories

| publisher = Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag

| pub_date = 1931

| english_pub_date = {{plainlist|

• {{start date|1933}} London, {{nowrap|Martin Secker}}
• {{start date|1946}} New York, Schocken Books

}}

| media_type = Print (hardback)

| pages = xvi+285

| oclc =

| native_wikisource = Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (Sammelband)

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The Great Wall of China ({{langx|de|Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer|link=no}} [While building the Chinese wall]) is the first posthumous collection of short stories by Franz Kafka published in Germany in 1931. It was edited by Max Brod and Hans-Joachim Schoeps and collected previously unpublished short stories, incomplete stories, fragments and aphorisms written by Kafka between 1917 and 1924. The first English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in 1933. The same translation was published in 1946 by Schocken Books.