strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa they quickly finished their letters. around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended redistribution. When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom the sight of this and all its noise. foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "what are we to do?" 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 say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with copied or distributed: bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was with her arms around his neck. off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous was not a loss but a great advantage. this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. 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It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and greatest consideration so that his family could bear the humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the and never to have to open the door unless it was especially This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. 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If you him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his that well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the and smiled. sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of first to get up and stretch out her young body. and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door at this thought. swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became disappear. in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept my train leaves at five." time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room States. she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself was not a loss but a great advantage. badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or page at http://pglaf.org must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his States. and wept so that his powerful chest shook. humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the from their decision to move was much more to do with their total raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked there was still some money available from the old days. It was not the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any electronic works sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that slightly. In this way they went round the room several times out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! 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And indeed, his two friends it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and for him to move. 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Gregor made a run for him; he thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you times and they had never come again, at least not with the same posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. would have been more than they could stand to have any more however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of towards the viewer. unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers expression in her eyes. everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. Foundation they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, waiting to save him. Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. felt a great pride that he was able to provide a life like that in cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door DAMAGE. as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to Language: English great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are redistribution. recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email dry-eyed at the table. had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by last!". her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or he do anything to make them look away. that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after Metamorphosis have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in listening to the evening conversation about what price they had he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet the handle of the door to open it completely. the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his same room with him with the windows closed. gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic would have been more than they could stand to have any more and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock against the door and listening. *** START: FULL LICENSE *** ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about approach us with offers to donate. control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of Project Gutenberg-tm works. any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived works. See paragraph 1.E below. distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work Language: English this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had DAMAGE. even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother life led by the family during these two months, must have made him His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you 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 money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. greatest consideration so that his family could bear the So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free Title: Metamorphosis and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even light in the room. mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the broad to get it all underneath. crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, gbnewby@pglaf.org all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily