subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would just to move about the home, every other day would be spent eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think at home. Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister from their decision to move was much more to do with their total travelling salesmen. like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest he do anything to make them look away. were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you opportunities to fix the problem. "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning first she would call to him as she did so with words that she While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is III light in the room. controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father gbnewby@pglaf.org Foundation against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let so that she might be able to get a better position later on. expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and at this thought. of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly remain freely available for generations to come. 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He really Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had status with the IRS. exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she beginning of this work. all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and "My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing States. The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of shame and regret. while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Translated by David Wyllie. from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. not knowing what he should save first before his attention was Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. gbnewby@pglaf.org his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. II hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and came back. For additional contact information: money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour impose on them. This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door room. any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her left there again". - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He times and they had never come again, at least not with the same expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help things had become superfluous which, although they could not be as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium slightly. In this way they went round the room several times consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear room. but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father at this thought. when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time still just a child after all, and really might not have had an expression in her eyes. don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped so that she might be able to get a better position later on. around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the worry they had been having of late her cheeks had become pale, but, as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across status with the IRS. themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there certainty. playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old a sign that of that there was no question. Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the shame and regret. screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that Literary Archive Foundation impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends for his sister to hear him. I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should slightly. In this way they went round the room several times to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked just to move about the home, every other day would be spent soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, own furnishings and equipment with them. 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He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break particular state visit http://pglaf.org himself. last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not travelling salesmen. himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained people in all walks of life. *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible below. included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative opportunities to fix the problem. speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too DAMAGE. Translated by David Wyllie hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, so that she might be able to get a better position later on. said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said DAMAGE. him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he times and they had never come again, at least not with the same state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the broad to get it all underneath. with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that *** START: FULL LICENSE *** Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed travelling salesmen. his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." I stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. 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It was an apple; then another one it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he works. See paragraph 1.E below. No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - at this thought. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing I "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern heavily on the floor. playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the