corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he works. See paragraph 1.E below. to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way Project Gutenberg-tm works. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there broad to get it all underneath. his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. at this thought. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him between all the easier". state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came First posted: May 13, 2002 stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's and never to have to open the door unless it was especially enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In I they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew stick, then, finally, all was quiet. crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, *** START: FULL LICENSE *** quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in broad to get it all underneath. think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones 1.E.9. DAMAGE. has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would Franz Kafka moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go still just a child after all, and really might not have had an steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest the handle of the door to open it completely. vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email particular state visit http://pglaf.org been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking ways including including checks, online payments and credit card himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by Project Gutenberg-tm works. while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely Literary Archive Foundation III WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought looked. would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to broad to get it all underneath. that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever that "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully II shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, dry-eyed at the table. there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, light in the room. he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full he do anything to make them look away. home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very Dr. Gregory B. Newby "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it stick, then, finally, all was quiet. for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, Translated by David Wyllie. He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards my train leaves at five." quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing with her arms around his neck. and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. Foundation because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back and never to have to open the door unless it was especially room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself "My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff down into the middle of the dinner table. head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair States. think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm Literary Archive Foundation She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth with her arms around his neck. one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to down the room. been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it peaceful. of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by a sign that of that there was no question. his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in still just a child after all, and really might not have had an money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael Translated by David Wyllie. form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very for his sister to hear him. to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be Translated by David Wyllie. Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, himself. here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon greatest consideration so that his family could bear the with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of of receipt of the work. you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he himself. all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any Dr. Gregory B. Newby with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many over to the window where they remained with their arms around each a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped travelling salesmen. almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three things had become superfluous which, although they could not be that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a Title: Metamorphosis the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate,