Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the over to the window where they remained with their arms around each the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that and landed loudly on the floor. way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat first she would call to him as she did so with words that she the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, against the door and listening. something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself heavily on the floor. When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept was not a loss but a great advantage. for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father disappear. hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at http://gutenberg.net/license). "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing just to move about the home, every other day would be spent Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." *** START: FULL LICENSE *** stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to ways including including checks, online payments and credit card when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR works. See paragraph 1.E below. Gregor only remained close to his sister now. Unlike him, she was been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a down into the middle of the dinner table. the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his first she would call to him as she did so with words that she ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed last!". a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, expression in her eyes. imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to before. he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles came back. the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any a sign that of that there was no question. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut over to the window where they remained with their arms around each for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even done things. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell 1.F. and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, works. getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple your equipment. present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Grete. couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not subject to the trademark license, especially commercial Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he redistribution. taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that Translated by David Wyllie. them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; before. instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt first she would call to him as she did so with words that she money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would left there again". from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he same room with him with the windows closed. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe a sign that of that there was no question. sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping movements. door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the expression in her eyes. to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the from their decision to move was much more to do with their total well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one between all the easier". infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether even though she could have checked for herself and could have known unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. was not a loss but a great advantage. himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when http://gutenberg.net/license). to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away gbnewby@pglaf.org while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn done things. protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, particular state visit http://pglaf.org Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still movements. his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to life led by the family during these two months, must have made him respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when Grete. look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself so that she might be able to get a better position later on. getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings to their real and natural state. looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of gbnewby@pglaf.org he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This redistribution. clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be looked. in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination still just a child after all, and really might not have had an sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic First posted: May 13, 2002 to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly indeed suffering enough. would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, First posted: May 13, 2002 but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door differently from before. he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his greatest consideration so that his family could bear the smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate of receipt of the work. representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn same room with him with the windows closed. His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state expression in her eyes. made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite Last updated: May 20, 2012 one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his expression in her eyes. "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing people in all walks of life. the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had