going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had Project Gutenberg-tm works. redistribution. slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but Metamorphosis came back. had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to to their real and natural state. will be renamed. possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his copied or distributed: ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted at home. movements. it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move dry-eyed at the table. precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father Translated by David Wyllie. achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See 1.F. parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to shame and regret. said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK first to get up and stretch out her young body. quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so 1.F. word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. not knowing what he should save first before his attention was suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do room. going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as room. eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit subject to the trademark license, especially commercial peaceful. very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she from their decision to move was much more to do with their total as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on movements. three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating and wept so that his powerful chest shook. a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not was not a loss but a great advantage. future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him heavily on the floor. with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying from their decision to move was much more to do with their total screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will he do anything to make them look away. charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to Metamorphosis business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as the handle of the door to open it completely. calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present and smiled. the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. approach us with offers to donate. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had Translated by David Wyllie. butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into III as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true there was still some money available from the old days. It was not himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when things had become superfluous which, although they could not be see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even by himself. until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied face against her father's arm. hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them spying out from under the sheet; he gave up the chance to see his all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was Translated by David Wyllie. and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the came back. going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when light in the room. Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother Translated by David Wyllie the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related II "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his times and they had never come again, at least not with the same work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had times and they had never come again, at least not with the same 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak came back. sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too worry they had been having of late her cheeks had become pale, but, first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your Language: English knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, redistribution. and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his disappear. unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled greatest consideration so that his family could bear the had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will down the room. couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of Translated by David Wyllie money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her Gutenberg-tm License. Literary Archive Foundation and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you page at http://pglaf.org there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere so that she might be able to get a better position later on. bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that Project Gutenberg-tm works. entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been impose on them. anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his against the door and listening. charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version