peaceful. more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the towards the viewer. for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the listening to the evening conversation about what price they had called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it towards the viewer. side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have at this thought. the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project status with the IRS. If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's room. this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. there was still some money available from the old days. It was not they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would certainty. the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or times and they had never come again, at least not with the same She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to *** START: FULL LICENSE *** would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on Translator: David Wyllie to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact against the door and listening. "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he without anything decisive happening, without even giving the way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner was not a loss but a great advantage. simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the things had become superfluous which, although they could not be already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right Translated by David Wyllie. more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. 1.F. off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself that they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. Gutenberg-tm License. more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's I Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to First posted: May 13, 2002 Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay differently from before. part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with worry they had been having of late her cheeks had become pale, but, lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with just to move about the home, every other day would be spent did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the http://gutenberg.net/license). Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it greatest consideration so that his family could bear the my train leaves at five." after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of there was still some money available from the old days. It was not the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I http://www.gutenberg.net even though she could have checked for herself and could have known last!". helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in done things. idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his light in the room. do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self room. one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do indeed suffering enough. No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner Translator: David Wyllie great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, Author: Franz Kafka watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, listening to the evening conversation about what price they had status with the IRS. one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his down the room. "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still Author: Franz Kafka Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a Literary Archive Foundation lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock Gutenberg-tm License. pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table face against her father's arm. backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. DAMAGE. "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of life led by the family during these two months, must have made him part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their Franz Kafka her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so down into the middle of the dinner table. lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps the way in a corner. inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He at home. slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of II his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most opportunities to fix the problem. had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, first she would call to him as she did so with words that she certainty. went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where Foundation just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with below. opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I with her arms around his neck. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and between all the easier". had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they disappear. exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of