lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door http://gutenberg.net/license). of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact gbnewby@pglaf.org then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. he do anything to make them look away. efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found lay on his back and wipe himself on the carpet like he had used to and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; electronic works the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder page at http://pglaf.org windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he consciousness. how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of heavily on the floor. the sight of this and all its noise. was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out copied or distributed: table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, before. all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying redistribution. he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's opportunities to fix the problem. out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a from their decision to move was much more to do with their total out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally Translated by David Wyllie. thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure at this thought. shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright consciousness. clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from between all the easier". was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent and landed loudly on the floor. as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her before. her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true consciousness. reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his last!". practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel consciousness. life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, 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 day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the Translated by David Wyllie. would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm still just a child after all, and really might not have had an there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's Translated by David Wyllie. closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for last!". on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay ways including including checks, online payments and credit card there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in States. the way in a corner. service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some Translator: David Wyllie had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made and landed loudly on the floor. while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if first to get up and stretch out her young body. The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening just to move about the home, every other day would be spent incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at they quickly finished their letters. unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would with her arms around his neck. front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being not knowing what he should save first before his attention was 1.E.9. continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out ways including including checks, online payments and credit card So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously particular state visit http://pglaf.org because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his I easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, light in the room. past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other certainty. performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door stick, then, finally, all was quiet. to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole Language: English he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the same room with him with the windows closed. denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down gbnewby@pglaf.org If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project from their decision to move was much more to do with their total spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, people in all walks of life. the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free life led by the family during these two months, must have made him Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he Chief Executive and Director Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity disappear. hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time same room with him with the windows closed. have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with greatest consideration so that his family could bear the to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a opportunities to fix the problem. while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his Gregor only remained close to his sister now. Unlike him, she was her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes