h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just a tinsy bit picky...sorry.

Kafka bit not publish a large number of books. He wrote three novels, none of which were ever completed or published in his life time and which allows huge numbers of scholarly books about them to be written to bore literature and language students. He wrote a large number of short stories, some of which he allowed to be published such as "The Judgement", "The Penal Colony" and "Metamorphosis". In his will he instructed that all his unpublished work should be destroyed. These wishes were obviously ignored. Admittedly three novels is better than I've done, and more so than Harper Lee, but it's hardly a large number.

Picky - Attention to Detail - a good thing whatever you call it.

How about:

Franz Kafka wrote a large number of short stories about...

It leaves out the issue of publication or non-publication, but is more accurate than the existing text.

Loony? Chris? Can we have the magic editorial wand waved, please?

agcB

The italics read the fora of an an article during the morning after it has appeared on the front page. This ensures blemishes such as this are corrected.

Thanks for pointing it out

You're welcome.

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