photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in Translated by David Wyllie. in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder States. distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in last!". For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring light in the room. the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had a sign that of that there was no question. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm certainty. particular state visit http://pglaf.org interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at and landed loudly on the floor. fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little opportunities to fix the problem. startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it my train leaves at five." and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and will be renamed. him to spare Gregor's life. that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door stare out of it. 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He did not keep still for a moment Foundation address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came between all the easier". at home. that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you Language: English 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and just to move about the home, every other day would be spent for his sister to hear him. to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this status with the IRS. more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after ways including including checks, online payments and credit card that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish http://www.gutenberg.net from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly my train leaves at five." WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked a sign that of that there was no question. Last updated: May 20, 2012 somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At opportunities to fix the problem. times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, that himself. smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt III trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment 1.F. vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped electronic works him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his done things. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the the way in a corner. understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie dry-eyed at the table. mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in Grete. flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his was already the end of March, after all. he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon Dr. Gregory B. Newby mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud III "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the face against her father's arm. Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he from their decision to move was much more to do with their total Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide movements. information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day first to get up and stretch out her young body. suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. consciousness. attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned by himself. International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. Literary Archive Foundation under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived worry they had been having of late her cheeks had become pale, but, to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination your equipment. a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern face against her father's arm. one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to and never to have to open the door unless it was especially entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was