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Jun 03, 20 a hunger artist is a short story by franz kafka full unabridged audiobook. Original title isbn 9780199600922 published on 1922. Both collections are included in their entirety in this edition, which also contains other, uncollected stories and a selection of posthumously published works that have become part of the kafka canon. Project gutenberg offers 61,575 free ebooks to download. The impresario had set the maximum length of time for the fast at forty dayshe would never allow the fasting go on beyond that point, not even in the cosmopolitan cities.
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