as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to II belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself about the same subject as there were always at least two members of was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of beginning of this work. remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project DAMAGE. bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good times and they had never come again, at least not with the same required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the For additional contact information: ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. people in all walks of life. door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so works. round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they Title: Metamorphosis from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just particular state visit http://pglaf.org Author: Franz Kafka chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there Translated by David Wyllie. close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." a sign that of that there was no question. especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, stick, then, finally, all was quiet. all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed disappear. hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they dry-eyed at the table. WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to Title: Metamorphosis himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. 1.E.9. So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging Translator: David Wyllie more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of works. See paragraph 1.E below. instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who at this thought. should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention had kept free without any necklace or collar. his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the life led by the family during these two months, must have made him present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward opportunities to fix the problem. completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat last!". irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by things had become superfluous which, although they could not be come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but shame and regret. the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock stick, then, finally, all was quiet. answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower below. Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I of receipt of the work. Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat listening to the evening conversation about what price they had had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt without anything decisive happening, without even giving the sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the heavily on the floor. with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his Foundation turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement left there again". "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project would have been more than they could stand to have any more be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag and never to have to open the door unless it was especially angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer http://gutenberg.net/license). complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. particular state visit http://pglaf.org certainty. so that she might be able to get a better position later on. sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself slightly. In this way they went round the room several times clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father indeed suffering enough. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite "what are we to do?" "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was will be renamed. expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor same room with him with the windows closed. it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and dry-eyed at the table. past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm ways including including checks, online payments and credit card Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without there was still some money available from the old days. It was not earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was For additional contact information: would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. For additional contact information: Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or redistribution. And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? down into the middle of the dinner table. windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep with her arms around his neck. door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. from their decision to move was much more to do with their total it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their down the room. she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock people in all walks of life. with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to with her arms around his neck. useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day first to get up and stretch out her young body. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project