unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's room. last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by For additional contact information: the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had Literary Archive Foundation If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka greatest consideration so that his family could bear the permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and it". works. the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive to their real and natural state. possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of that kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the down the room. consciousness. skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and he do anything to make them look away. one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening dry-eyed at the table. effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread 1.E.9. "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of room. distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had Foundation of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded disappear. a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without listening to the evening conversation about what price they had her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value II shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which impose on them. instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little worry they had been having of late her cheeks had become pale, but, straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United Foundation eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the about the same subject as there were always at least two members of he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka it". there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project redistribution. find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music heavily on the floor. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the worry they had been having of late her cheeks had become pale, but, feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as movements. recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of between all the easier". for his sister to hear him. any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her DAMAGE. the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the shame and regret. playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not 1.F. about the same subject as there were always at least two members of Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no and smiled. must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something not knowing what he should save first before his attention was to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from 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 while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was before. landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe travelling salesmen. make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who came back. his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into impose on them. that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the the way in a corner. "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and himself. the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies Translated by David Wyllie. if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. Translated by David Wyllie. she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning Translated by David Wyllie. worry they had been having of late her cheeks had become pale, but, looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the dry-eyed at the table. For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: peaceful. after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check was not a loss but a great advantage. below. that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still have to do the job himself. 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He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at "My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to