had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked slightly. In this way they went round the room several times to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further Franz Kafka photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully and landed loudly on the floor. struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand down the room. enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped without anything decisive happening, without even giving the and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. without anything decisive happening, without even giving the wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would same room with him with the windows closed. at this thought. permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? room. of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a works. See paragraph 1.E below. throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had same room with him with the windows closed. and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest subject to the trademark license, especially commercial things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his *** START: FULL LICENSE *** they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware particular state visit http://pglaf.org family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their the handle of the door to open it completely. just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came shame and regret. had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included differently from before. Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, same room with him with the windows closed. coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell down the room. labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the spying out from under the sheet; he gave up the chance to see his that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the *** START: FULL LICENSE *** experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was and smiled. make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on that outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the shame and regret. well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to was not a loss but a great advantage. vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of my train leaves at five." street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at Translator: David Wyllie broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door I the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth for his sister to hear him. achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously Translated by David Wyllie. by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was copied or distributed: breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project the handle of the door to open it completely. Translated by David Wyllie. When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement times and they had never come again, at least not with the same International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough by himself. hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain felt a great pride that he was able to provide a life like that in samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, waiting to save him. he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his DAMAGE. serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a Last updated: May 20, 2012 own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which with him. But as it is ..." noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after down the room. copied or distributed: from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the Dr. Gregory B. Newby was not a loss but a great advantage. his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! the way in a corner. mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing subject to the trademark license, especially commercial this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously face against her father's arm. looked. been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned electronic works this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw at home. she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three for his sister to hear him. And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the himself. would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the disappear. complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break