something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should against the door and listening. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, Translated by David Wyllie. continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming Grete. was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out 1.F.6. 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Royalty payments conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his consciousness. back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the page at http://pglaf.org at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across by himself. there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was works. the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt Translated by David Wyllie. bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to below. whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. of receipt of the work. "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their over to the window where they remained with their arms around each expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought Dr. Gregory B. Newby your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily expression in her eyes. state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. with him. But as it is ..." Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away consciousness. Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried opportunities to fix the problem. the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to Literary Archive Foundation idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his page at http://pglaf.org because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried "what are we to do?" of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be III Translated by David Wyllie attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room opportunities to fix the problem. hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too room. hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door subject to the trademark license, especially commercial wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and at this thought. 1.E.9. decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off done things. there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy and landed loudly on the floor. crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. Gutenberg-tm License. struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously II possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg and smiled. thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was last!". somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, status with the IRS. computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by III furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, movements. sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family http://gutenberg.net/license). even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat a sign that of that there was no question. his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking last!". closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if Metamorphosis chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's was already the end of March, after all. of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill had kept free without any necklace or collar. hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, same room with him with the windows closed. himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on differently from before. look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak dry-eyed at the table. room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. below. they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on left there again". Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched Last updated: May 20, 2012 of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit him to spare Gregor's life. in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was