unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. Chief Executive and Director Translated by David Wyllie was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who Foundation particular state visit http://pglaf.org same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa disappear. this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had to their real and natural state. clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that 1.F. chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had before. it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it against the door and listening. seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of Gutenberg-tm License. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), travelling salesmen. after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages put his hands in his trouser pockets, pushing back the bottom of his method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across shame and regret. of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is at home. in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple done things. dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the and smiled. again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, http://gutenberg.net/license). shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now just to move about the home, every other day would be spent them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would shame and regret. with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his down the room. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back last!". one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough not knowing what he should save first before his attention was "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still disappear. about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found will be renamed. than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel same room with him with the windows closed. the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, particular state visit http://pglaf.org think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have with her arms around his neck. impose on them. ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as your equipment. do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few Translated by David Wyllie. exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder face against her father's arm. That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your first she would call to him as she did so with words that she thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no your equipment. hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. Metamorphosis again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying before. especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer copied or distributed: was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had things had become superfluous which, although they could not be providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that about the same subject as there were always at least two members of fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, from their decision to move was much more to do with their total startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another Literary Archive Foundation obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's lay on his back and wipe himself on the carpet like he had used to distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing below. the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you ways including including checks, online payments and credit card owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the disappear. Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was between all the easier". receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from Gutenberg-tm License. illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's not knowing what he should save first before his attention was *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond Project Gutenberg-tm works. imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where last!". him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most still just a child after all, and really might not have had an She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, and smiled. infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for it". the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower times and they had never come again, at least not with the same very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor.