After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite even though she could have checked for herself and could have known Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure room. the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say first to get up and stretch out her young body. as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together States. was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good last!". ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner first she would call to him as she did so with words that she scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest Chief Executive and Director the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good they quickly finished their letters. enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange against the door and listening. of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their face against her father's arm. instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought and smiled. on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your there was still some money available from the old days. It was not and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had came back. respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall http://www.gutenberg.net taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the http://gutenberg.net/license). disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still heavily on the floor. Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go Chief Executive and Director a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included License. You must require such a user to return or your equipment. With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any by himself. anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit about the same subject as there were always at least two members of been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the works. See paragraph 1.E below. entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and copied or distributed: request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple same room with him with the windows closed. have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked opportunities to fix the problem. cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been peaceful. Translated by David Wyllie. without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to 1.E.9. this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it people in all walks of life. his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to from their decision to move was much more to do with their total dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break for his sister to hear him. The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where times and they had never come again, at least not with the same one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of over to the window where they remained with their arms around each heavily on the floor. dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some listening to the evening conversation about what price they had research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and from their decision to move was much more to do with their total was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present about the same subject as there were always at least two members of on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. room. see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, of receipt of the work. but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to between all the easier". 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He done things. Title: Metamorphosis clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away would have been more than they could stand to have any more bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear at home. couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project and landed loudly on the floor. the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, came back. samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to III she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be just to move about the home, every other day would be spent nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it Author: Franz Kafka It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair had kept free without any necklace or collar. trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the by himself. the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with below. Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the looked. with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in for his sister to hear him. without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily at this thought. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said below. and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did