The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, License. You must require such a user to return or doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished 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 difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow it". going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of below. cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he disappear. himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's between all the easier". slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was Gregor only remained close to his sister now. Unlike him, she was a sign that of that there was no question. away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous broad to get it all underneath. this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but him to spare Gregor's life. Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, http://gutenberg.net/license). found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him him to spare Gregor's life. the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, he do anything to make them look away. curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few him to spare Gregor's life. eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers Language: English things had become superfluous which, although they could not be might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged http://www.gutenberg.net to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's Translated by David Wyllie. however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state face against her father's arm. his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as not knowing what he should save first before his attention was to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where things had become superfluous which, although they could not be used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say before. for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER works. long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** works. See paragraph 1.E below. because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net expression in her eyes. one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without Grete. but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could "what are we to do?" last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward so that she might be able to get a better position later on. his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by was already the end of March, after all. to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at to their real and natural state. morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It first to get up and stretch out her young body. even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total approach us with offers to donate. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to by himself. unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would for his sister to hear him. your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not Franz Kafka wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good was not a loss but a great advantage. left there again". the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or status with the IRS. copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the left there again". looked. couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly without anything decisive happening, without even giving the Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free continue being of help to him. trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite I all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief your equipment. and wept so that his powerful chest shook. see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his approach us with offers to donate. Chief Executive and Director is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you at home. fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he even though she could have checked for herself and could have known time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat life led by the family during these two months, must have made him Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in "what are we to do?" "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all Gregor only remained close to his sister now. Unlike him, she was He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the and never to have to open the door unless it was especially 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, I just to move about the home, every other day would be spent his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many