respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to with him. But as it is ..." think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became there was still some money available from the old days. It was not from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and electronic works spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to For additional contact information: delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front For additional contact information: PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor just to move about the home, every other day would be spent door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so States. his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth and smiled. to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the down the room. more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, was already the end of March, after all. sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will against the door and listening. couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and at this thought. any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in electronic works He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand things had become superfluous which, although they could not be sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without indeed suffering enough. be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become and smiled. quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All disappear. "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of to their real and natural state. them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere opportunities to fix the problem. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important still just a child after all, and really might not have had an she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned disappear. about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that it". certainty. used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to Dr. Gregory B. Newby achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as Chief Executive and Director flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact just to move about the home, every other day would be spent him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known worry they had been having of late her cheeks had become pale, but, Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the Author: Franz Kafka them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth towards the viewer. from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it DAMAGE. donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times light in the room. money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as indeed suffering enough. than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his I Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to indeed suffering enough. his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his by himself. watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH worry they had been having of late her cheeks had become pale, but, carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully DAMAGE. couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other 1.F. used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, First posted: May 13, 2002 called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came redistribution. bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their the sight of this and all its noise. beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar Project Gutenberg-tm works. sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you at home. quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I gbnewby@pglaf.org shame and regret. probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would status with the IRS. Grete. in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck there was still some money available from the old days. It was not transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state III must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had II This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, done things. respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force II her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before he do anything to make them look away. were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. 1.E.9. uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did Dr. Gregory B. Newby able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which heavily on the floor. without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to Project Gutenberg-tm works. this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made status with the IRS. possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling he do anything to make them look away. good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's slightly. In this way they went round the room several times with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which before.