So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In below. himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not indeed suffering enough. back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had Translated by David Wyllie. rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated For additional contact information: going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with heavily on the floor. see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his impose on them. included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on for his sister to hear him. had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did at home. Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps with her arms around his neck. wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked "My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, approach us with offers to donate. If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any copied or distributed: course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no even though she could have checked for herself and could have known who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the about the same subject as there were always at least two members of *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other opportunities to fix the problem. now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he down the room. going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his Dr. Gregory B. Newby slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head Franz Kafka to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would at home. threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] not knowing what he should save first before his attention was not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended http://gutenberg.net/license). middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the certainty. round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. he do anything to make them look away. out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so indeed suffering enough. first to get up and stretch out her young body. on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked and landed loudly on the floor. Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at by himself. gbnewby@pglaf.org from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the down into the middle of the dinner table. only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the page at http://pglaf.org stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too would have been more than they could stand to have any more coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you For additional contact information: His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before certainty. The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. that front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees approach us with offers to donate. bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats and wept so that his powerful chest shook. seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed Chief Executive and Director possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to ways including including checks, online payments and credit card they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all gbnewby@pglaf.org immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and towards the viewer. father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the waiting to save him. your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He him to spare Gregor's life. if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his below. could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. of receipt of the work. back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest below. landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the over to the window where they remained with their arms around each morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of movements. way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep and smiled. morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender Title: Metamorphosis else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile dry-eyed at the table. three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to before. flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. Foundation peaceful. and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination the way in a corner. on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if looked. line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, done things. while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she indeed suffering enough. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. of receipt of the work. of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she expression in her eyes. one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should over to the window where they remained with their arms around each how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, it". himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with down into the middle of the dinner table. donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of