efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight Translated by David Wyllie. while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes Foundation and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the my train leaves at five." Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower dry-eyed at the table. 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived was not a loss but a great advantage. One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the http://www.gutenberg.net from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his against the door and listening. screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, "what are we to do?" And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the copied or distributed: that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm gbnewby@pglaf.org distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** "My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar to their real and natural state. Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was the way in a corner. this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing himself. top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any subject to the trademark license, especially commercial You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off Metamorphosis explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the people in all walks of life. if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke Metamorphosis life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At DAMAGE. outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so himself. sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours status with the IRS. that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can DAMAGE. to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing lay on his back and wipe himself on the carpet like he had used to door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and Translated by David Wyllie. stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her impose on them. heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, a sign that of that there was no question. here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was spying out from under the sheet; he gave up the chance to see his state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than last!". there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from he do anything to make them look away. again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free would have been more than they could stand to have any more opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was just to move about the home, every other day would be spent couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he movements. first she would call to him as she did so with words that she any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included First posted: May 13, 2002 come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, that pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked Project Gutenberg-tm works. the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side felt a great pride that he was able to provide a life like that in with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to peaceful. lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was dry-eyed at the table. sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her for his sister to hear him. before. consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not the handle of the door to open it completely. As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt