hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one put his hands in his trouser pockets, pushing back the bottom of his the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition Metamorphosis think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. and never to have to open the door unless it was especially something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly For additional contact information: as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room it". with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so over to the window where they remained with their arms around each the handle of the door to open it completely. course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way and wept so that his powerful chest shook. permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and was not a loss but a great advantage. word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the Metamorphosis of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the your equipment. seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they Translated by David Wyllie. little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did left there again". held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms the handle of the door to open it completely. work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere shame and regret. he do anything to make them look away. lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - differently from before. they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the 1.F. looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her things had become superfluous which, although they could not be and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; face against her father's arm. Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] had kept free without any necklace or collar. press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a Translated by David Wyllie only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all differently from before. not knowing what he should save first before his attention was he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that with her arms around his neck. eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned indeed suffering enough. Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let page at http://pglaf.org there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt came back. and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the Author: Franz Kafka with her arms around his neck. and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, so that she might be able to get a better position later on. he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his the way in a corner. have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the works. See paragraph 1.E below. without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more Translated by David Wyllie. But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three redistribution. broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to and landed loudly on the floor. dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." 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He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If Section 5. 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Instead of being afraid, the charwoman room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. status with the IRS. for his sister to hear him. While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we shame and regret. His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to first to get up and stretch out her young body. if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE below. out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile your equipment. politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his I that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. Grete. sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be status with the IRS. Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement certainty. and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that things had become superfluous which, although they could not be goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister electronic works of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted impose on them. dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it consciousness. because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his consciousness. his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do status with the IRS. clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry by himself. parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the to their real and natural state. following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he DAMAGE. sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] they quickly finished their letters. 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had II "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, just to move about the home, every other day would be spent while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally and wept so that his powerful chest shook. it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide for his sister to hear him. from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it approach us with offers to donate. Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a to their real and natural state. door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only