money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help Literary Archive Foundation milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of shame and regret. increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, done things. So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than against the door and listening. steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, himself. anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his the handle of the door to open it completely. boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had your equipment. the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats without anything decisive happening, without even giving the drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be worry they had been having of late her cheeks had become pale, but, the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously electronic works looked. her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up Translator: David Wyllie his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was electronic works turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't even though she could have checked for herself and could have known transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth first to get up and stretch out her young body. here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut Last updated: May 20, 2012 "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first shame and regret. that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by against the door and listening. unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." 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It had even become very will be renamed. decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had "what are we to do?" strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. Last updated: May 20, 2012 included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too that and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing listening to the evening conversation about what price they had to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly for his sister to hear him. the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest first she would call to him as she did so with words that she inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could disappear. her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had redistribution. come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation Project Gutenberg-tm works. these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than to their real and natural state. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before 1.E.6. 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The light from the of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the broad to get it all underneath. accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even works. only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three travelling salesmen. recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at was not a loss but a great advantage. his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced still just a child after all, and really might not have had an License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to and never to have to open the door unless it was especially precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. came back. before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was listening to the evening conversation about what price they had smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a http://www.gutenberg.net there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you greatest consideration so that his family could bear the it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper movements. He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to http://gutenberg.net/license). find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him face against her father's arm. back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his dry-eyed at the table. he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to