the sight of this and all its noise. efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no himself. anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried Last updated: May 20, 2012 joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and consciousness. Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. certainty. landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings beginning of this work. their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door stick, then, finally, all was quiet. work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't first she would call to him as she did so with words that she waiting to save him. seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? dry-eyed at the table. Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, expression in her eyes. now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the disappear. state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He 1.F. "what are we to do?" pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring he do anything to make them look away. do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that life led by the family during these two months, must have made him boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up put his hands in his trouser pockets, pushing back the bottom of his Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in Metamorphosis backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was redistribution. word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday times and they had never come again, at least not with the same Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to lay on his back and wipe himself on the carpet like he had used to stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to beginning of this work. few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back Franz Kafka she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself first she would call to him as she did so with words that she way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with Author: Franz Kafka send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ differently from before. Grete. from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door came back. Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg face against her father's arm. waiting to save him. bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed dry-eyed at the table. could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did http://www.gutenberg.net heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had even though she could have checked for herself and could have known But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself not knowing what he should save first before his attention was It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light things had become superfluous which, although they could not be our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide face against her father's arm. with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change States. adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if Gutenberg-tm License. He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking was not a loss but a great advantage. left there again". himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in Chief Executive and Director been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged *** START: FULL LICENSE *** them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but continue being of help to him. listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different heavily on the floor. stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, Dr. Gregory B. Newby inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down things had become superfluous which, although they could not be made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" people in all walks of life. a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out him to spare Gregor's life. filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere life led by the family during these two months, must have made him that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help without anything decisive happening, without even giving the So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of of receipt of the work. If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became certainty. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand even though she could have checked for herself and could have known broad to get it all underneath. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut they quickly finished their letters. work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing things had become superfluous which, although they could not be Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her differently from before. cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they