suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned with him. But as it is ..." door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide Grete. For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" copied or distributed: screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon felt a great pride that he was able to provide a life like that in cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up from their decision to move was much more to do with their total to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming 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 enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that came back. kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would over to the window where they remained with their arms around each and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be ways including including checks, online payments and credit card and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed a panic. 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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the and landed loudly on the floor. permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air I "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned just to move about the home, every other day would be spent to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, still just a child after all, and really might not have had an humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, http://www.gutenberg.net left there again". then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his over to the window where they remained with their arms around each For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his people in all walks of life. jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a Gutenberg-tm License. they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted waiting to save him. as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who listening to the evening conversation about what price they had of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and of receipt of the work. a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the people in all walks of life. could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his indeed suffering enough. that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had Foundation one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by room. look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest for his sister to hear him. helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally from their decision to move was much more to do with their total for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. 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And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could indeed suffering enough. wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls down the room. must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something door. 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They do if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had stick, then, finally, all was quiet. to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, Franz Kafka had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that same room with him with the windows closed. last!". continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a indeed suffering enough. because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom page at http://pglaf.org creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was lay on his back and wipe himself on the carpet like he had used to room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had page at http://pglaf.org He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net impose on them. all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project he do anything to make them look away. swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not with her arms around his neck. it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just that for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the your equipment. Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's http://www.gutenberg.net anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm between all the easier". doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be 1.E.9. pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to differently from before. certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down gbnewby@pglaf.org furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he opportunities to fix the problem. to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. impose on them. located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In Language: English Title: Metamorphosis ways including including checks, online payments and credit card on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. a sign that of that there was no question. blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried expression in her eyes. your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot beginning of this work. while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, http://www.gutenberg.net was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most *** START: FULL LICENSE *** access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go