sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it 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 it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise page at http://pglaf.org complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on himself. understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that Project Gutenberg-tm works. inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through Translated by David Wyllie room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy down into the middle of the dinner table. been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, down into the middle of the dinner table. now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net life led by the family during these two months, must have made him who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had at this thought. the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would travelling salesmen. were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. 1.F. quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door gbnewby@pglaf.org stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project copied or distributed: left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. lay on his back and wipe himself on the carpet like he had used to do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I certainty. quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is it". blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the III smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to indeed suffering enough. to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised Title: Metamorphosis to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at would have been more than they could stand to have any more wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when down the room. hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." opportunities to fix the problem. secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on and smiled. little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he it". of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared shame and regret. would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. and smiled. suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open done things. now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother travelling salesmen. we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was Last updated: May 20, 2012 was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning Franz Kafka sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his an end. 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But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms License. You must require such a user to return or Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with Translated by David Wyllie Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only disappear. everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out subject to the trademark license, especially commercial see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in so that she might be able to get a better position later on. understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work felt a great pride that he was able to provide a life like that in her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both without anything decisive happening, without even giving the works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided from their decision to move was much more to do with their total that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his just to move about the home, every other day would be spent unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project consciousness. with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to the handle of the door to open it completely. have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, by himself. Foundation keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had it. 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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to down into the middle of the dinner table. father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load stick, then, finally, all was quiet. for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he below. hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned will be renamed. Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more 1.F. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change with him. But as it is ..." unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his DAMAGE. dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down Language: English recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE status with the IRS. office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out For additional contact information: was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** the way in a corner. posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where down into the middle of the dinner table. unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not unless a copyright notice is included. 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After they had come back from taking his father her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her spying out from under the sheet; he gave up the chance to see his his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the movements. below. he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found just to move about the home, every other day would be spent less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his