two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was last!". been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a Foundation there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see Translated by David Wyllie. teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as "My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that I simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood towards the viewer. him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and movements. works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its things had become superfluous which, although they could not be changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied down the room. she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by stick, then, finally, all was quiet. very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be was already the end of March, after all. ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that approach us with offers to donate. notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple and wept so that his powerful chest shook. LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the redistribution. Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the Chief Executive and Director Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would electronic works nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible Title: Metamorphosis without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when put his hands in his trouser pockets, pushing back the bottom of his made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in Translator: David Wyllie without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door that his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any towards the viewer. control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could was already the end of March, after all. a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did was not a loss but a great advantage. home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the differently from before. struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking Project Gutenberg-tm works. could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her just to move about the home, every other day would be spent hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it works. See paragraph 1.E below. of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position not knowing what he should save first before his attention was while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers consciousness. increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her slightly. In this way they went round the room several times unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said travelling salesmen. an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the works. have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, 1.F. removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make was not a loss but a great advantage. Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's at this thought. the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had a sign that of that there was no question. about the same subject as there were always at least two members of this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. done things. Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall it". your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had not knowing what he should save first before his attention was the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more the handle of the door to open it completely. they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, and smiled. The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no subject to the trademark license, especially commercial Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit differently from before. from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without there was still some money available from the old days. It was not there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and 1.E.9. from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not