stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value that located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. Franz Kafka International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. Translated by David Wyllie. "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the slightly. In this way they went round the room several times made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, Chief Executive and Director favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him continue being of help to him. where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the without anything decisive happening, without even giving the to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money and landed loudly on the floor. re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more times and they had never come again, at least not with the same been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. first to get up and stretch out her young body. "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even himself. people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was first to get up and stretch out her young body. was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when approach us with offers to donate. and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to at this thought. his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that below. doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was waiting to save him. arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works particular state visit http://pglaf.org slightly. In this way they went round the room several times round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how at home. convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague works. See paragraph 1.E below. that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again would have been more than they could stand to have any more almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had expression in her eyes. she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out my train leaves at five." too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to will be renamed. INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH Project Gutenberg-tm works. completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his ways including including checks, online payments and credit card providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of from their decision to move was much more to do with their total wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of License. You must require such a user to return or last!". door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort "what are we to do?" been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood over to the window where they remained with their arms around each that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the heavily on the floor. with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project II *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** Translated by David Wyllie between all the easier". his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but expression in her eyes. Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with to their real and natural state. Language: English room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he Translated by David Wyllie. uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to travelling salesmen. she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in would have been more than they could stand to have any more While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. 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Some of the time he passed in a Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly 1.F. partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with room. might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and disappear. were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. 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Newby look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too movements. the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her work my way out of it again. 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But completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked and landed loudly on the floor. trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so against the door and listening. at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of was already the end of March, after all. he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she