with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and listening to the evening conversation about what price they had there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the 1.E.9. decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends gbnewby@pglaf.org stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him movements. expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and from their decision to move was much more to do with their total even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This Dr. Gregory B. Newby they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own Translated by David Wyllie. with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He dry-eyed at the table. status with the IRS. Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to expression in her eyes. back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be beginning of this work. donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided gbnewby@pglaf.org Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of DAMAGE. "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break http://www.gutenberg.net that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing with him. But as it is ..." if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we there was still some money available from the old days. It was not they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for and landed loudly on the floor. from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. indeed suffering enough. himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more room. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his Gutenberg-tm License. going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated just to move about the home, every other day would be spent in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven peaceful. himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his light in the room. From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation 1.E.9. 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His father at this time would normally with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the Author: Franz Kafka coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the Foundation certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. same room with him with the windows closed. set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free http://www.gutenberg.net required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or from their decision to move was much more to do with their total cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his still just a child after all, and really might not have had an business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than and never to have to open the door unless it was especially probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have broad to get it all underneath. answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the by himself. "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; III death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, page at http://pglaf.org course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go Franz Kafka furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn will be renamed. public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned Metamorphosis providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations done things. definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. expression in her eyes. foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His was already the end of March, after all. a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness broad to get it all underneath. completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this Author: Franz Kafka out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours even though she could have checked for herself and could have known couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, without anything decisive happening, without even giving the looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, without anything decisive happening, without even giving the illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she opportunities to fix the problem. owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it life led by the family during these two months, must have made him hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no DAMAGE. suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether shame and regret. 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk beginning of this work. from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - "what are we to do?" have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the at this thought. out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to he do anything to make them look away. peaceful. This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant "My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed felt a great pride that he was able to provide a life like that in and landed loudly on the floor. his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK it". couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with at home. the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed the sight of this and all its noise. If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with disappear. now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa and never to have to open the door unless it was especially unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who First posted: May 13, 2002 completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him