rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but electronic works that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of first she would call to him as she did so with words that she experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt slightly. In this way they went round the room several times strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself copied or distributed: be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without with him. But as it is ..." whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged gbnewby@pglaf.org some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know of receipt of the work. Author: Franz Kafka of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary life led by the family during these two months, must have made him kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough himself. remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender certainty. remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used Franz Kafka went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower had kept free without any necklace or collar. Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to last!". special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He was already the end of March, after all. he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings listening to the evening conversation about what price they had he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was Last updated: May 20, 2012 The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the so that she might be able to get a better position later on. them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that first she would call to him as she did so with words that she License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have towards the viewer. that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go copied or distributed: the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of redistribution. present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And indeed suffering enough. she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever Translated by David Wyllie. of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where heavily on the floor. the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation disappear. without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would Gutenberg-tm License. to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor Dr. Gregory B. Newby slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of that frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him over to the window where they remained with their arms around each set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest your equipment. copied or distributed: time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of differently from before. He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal status with the IRS. consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to light in the room. in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear same room with him with the windows closed. him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be Foundation This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related Translated by David Wyllie. was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours DAMAGE. she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He Translator: David Wyllie themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but left there again". form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked travelling salesmen. sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the Project Gutenberg-tm works. the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the shame and regret. One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room page at http://pglaf.org normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first "what are we to do?" time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go with him. But as it is ..." Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't