your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, Metamorphosis certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations towards the viewer. They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the with him. But as it is ..." round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to the way in a corner. upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep and never to have to open the door unless it was especially he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he first to get up and stretch out her young body. he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really the sight of this and all its noise. Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned waiting to save him. emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the at home. are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling below. business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in over to the window where they remained with their arms around each his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands dry-eyed at the table. it". slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of to their real and natural state. one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United *** START: FULL LICENSE *** violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he License. You must require such a user to return or little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. opportunities to fix the problem. remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been First posted: May 13, 2002 eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works last!". the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent your equipment. "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at Gutenberg-tm License. and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my face against her father's arm. table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her things had become superfluous which, although they could not be had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly movements. "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his and wept so that his powerful chest shook. from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware had kept free without any necklace or collar. Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or slightly. In this way they went round the room several times That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared stick, then, finally, all was quiet. seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight DAMAGE. If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect against the door and listening. Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when of receipt of the work. speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's indeed suffering enough. hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen Translator: David Wyllie choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of gbnewby@pglaf.org impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money same room with him with the windows closed. why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple will be renamed. one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear opportunities to fix the problem. 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm Author: Franz Kafka lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat Translated by David Wyllie. possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their beginning of this work. LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping was not a loss but a great advantage. efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with greatest consideration so that his family could bear the in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom not knowing what he should save first before his attention was coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. disappear. Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change a sign that of that there was no question. sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever http://www.gutenberg.net and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with consciousness. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see done things. shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work at home. the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final the sight of this and all its noise. kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they Translated by David Wyllie from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have particular state visit http://pglaf.org that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her and smiled. and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. 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