the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her 1.E.9. each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. light in the room. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and spying out from under the sheet; he gave up the chance to see his his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, Author: Franz Kafka she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would against the door and listening. disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and License. You must require such a user to return or Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had that with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many DAMAGE. back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back Dr. Gregory B. Newby again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed III work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, down into the middle of the dinner table. early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this States. should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible below. permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware Literary Archive Foundation company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the impose on them. trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his and landed loudly on the floor. Translated by David Wyllie But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away Title: Metamorphosis the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do at this thought. him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she broad to get it all underneath. used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of impose on them. able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good waiting to save him. his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was shame and regret. and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor without anything decisive happening, without even giving the into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the listening to the evening conversation about what price they had even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright about the same subject as there were always at least two members of would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was room. especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but and smiled. and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the times and they had never come again, at least not with the same Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To things had become superfluous which, although they could not be might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned about the same subject as there were always at least two members of while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no and landed loudly on the floor. he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might expression in her eyes. one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes status with the IRS. everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he had kept free without any necklace or collar. One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he at home. with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it I condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object from their decision to move was much more to do with their total without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH beginning of this work. Translated by David Wyllie. ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but shame and regret. flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the times and they had never come again, at least not with the same were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no Foundation This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at there was still some money available from the old days. It was not He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the expression in her eyes. of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here without anything decisive happening, without even giving the for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works things had become superfluous which, although they could not be different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, about the same subject as there were always at least two members of something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. Literary Archive Foundation This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll particular state visit http://pglaf.org lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? first to get up and stretch out her young body. already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right States. everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this the way in a corner. to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and your equipment. hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!"