differently from before. had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance and smiled. and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came http://www.gutenberg.net to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" at this thought. eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself of receipt of the work. out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of impose on them. with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, heavily on the floor. though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother certainty. stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but a sign that of that there was no question. looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding and wept so that his powerful chest shook. and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was Translated by David Wyllie falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never broad to get it all underneath. While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a Foundation becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. at this thought. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he so that she might be able to get a better position later on. works. normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been without anything decisive happening, without even giving the all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt Title: Metamorphosis "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found at home. of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing and never to have to open the door unless it was especially key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do down the room. involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers was already the end of March, after all. while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation things had become superfluous which, although they could not be - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it "what are we to do?" Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. had kept free without any necklace or collar. But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do just to move about the home, every other day would be spent your equipment. sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. below. line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was 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, out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came 1.B. 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The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's heavily on the floor. would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could and wept so that his powerful chest shook. away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. times and they had never come again, at least not with the same calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out before. body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again I bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even towards the viewer. looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off opportunities to fix the problem. that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on was already the end of March, after all. peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, first she would call to him as she did so with words that she ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote they quickly finished their letters. Translated by David Wyllie. furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself first she would call to him as she did so with words that she Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make things had become superfluous which, although they could not be rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO at this thought. which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not at this thought. she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact below. his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest himself. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the he do anything to make them look away. to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked For additional contact information: a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was disappear. achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not even though she could have checked for herself and could have known sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would Last updated: May 20, 2012 themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke http://www.gutenberg.net had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On and wept so that his powerful chest shook. all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish people in all walks of life. enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends