a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came Foundation stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer between all the easier". terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This even though she could have checked for herself and could have known had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy Title: Metamorphosis everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right him to spare Gregor's life. slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready for his sister to hear him. electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived still just a child after all, and really might not have had an probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father consciousness. stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something page at http://pglaf.org when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut with her arms around his neck. States. that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right was not a loss but a great advantage. complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could and landed loudly on the floor. it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where page at http://pglaf.org with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, times and they had never come again, at least not with the same will be renamed. especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about ways including including checks, online payments and credit card array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever had kept free without any necklace or collar. hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks http://www.gutenberg.net quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him works. while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the about the same subject as there were always at least two members of was not a loss but a great advantage. without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at room. concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the first she would call to him as she did so with words that she tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been from their decision to move was much more to do with their total It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, Project Gutenberg-tm works. re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to put his hands in his trouser pockets, pushing back the bottom of his the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost at this thought. confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself continue being of help to him. experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it himself. address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of subject to the trademark license, especially commercial Translated by David Wyllie politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in dry-eyed at the table. Gutenberg-tm License. He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. waiting to save him. even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly differently from before. "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net electronic works to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. waiting to save him. trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was for his sister to hear him. away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an For additional contact information: and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we II which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more travelling salesmen. probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if a sign that of that there was no question. about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely Franz Kafka achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they III until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, spying out from under the sheet; he gave up the chance to see his "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which of receipt of the work. almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it 1.E.9. himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry shame and regret. would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like for his sister to hear him. mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of towards the viewer. down into the middle of the dinner table. and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your greatest consideration so that his family could bear the 1.F. immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too Translated by David Wyllie. Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited first she would call to him as she did so with words that she would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the was not a loss but a great advantage. feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, Author: Franz Kafka of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions *** START: FULL LICENSE *** calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far ways including including checks, online payments and credit card takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on between all the easier". on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help