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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in from their decision to move was much more to do with their total difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of travelling salesmen. to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without done things. ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him 1.E.9. if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I my train leaves at five." would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became travelling salesmen. now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off he do anything to make them look away. their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this was not a loss but a great advantage. TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, there was still some money available from the old days. It was not anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position disappear. sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door lay on his back and wipe himself on the carpet like he had used to any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible Foundation "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project First posted: May 13, 2002 on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already put his hands in his trouser pockets, pushing back the bottom of his as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and and landed loudly on the floor. special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out face against her father's arm. research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with will be renamed. wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't Translated by David Wyllie. Last updated: May 20, 2012 stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head between all the easier". especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards will be renamed. form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it differently from before. were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. travelling salesmen. family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. with her arms around his neck. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father felt a great pride that he was able to provide a life like that in posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate and wept so that his powerful chest shook. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by Translated by David Wyllie. His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness subject to the trademark license, especially commercial feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. by himself. which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project towards the viewer. Literary Archive Foundation labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive they quickly finished their letters. suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that approach us with offers to donate. PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE movements. his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had movements. fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, Literary Archive Foundation labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when before. released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a to their real and natural state. This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation was not a loss but a great advantage. at this thought. Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his Dr. Gregory B. Newby from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when Title: Metamorphosis as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the http://www.gutenberg.net smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which not knowing what he should save first before his attention was thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly heavily on the floor. about the same subject as there were always at least two members of against the door and listening. continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in waiting to save him. Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do people in all walks of life. was not a loss but a great advantage. parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, was already the end of March, after all. state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this greatest consideration so that his family could bear the distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do towards the viewer. put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. For additional contact information: "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the Last updated: May 20, 2012 slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery 1.F. her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one over to the window where they remained with their arms around each catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer and smiled. looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification will be renamed. charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the Metamorphosis of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's down the room. unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the just to move about the home, every other day would be spent would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's stick, then, finally, all was quiet. little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as indeed suffering enough. violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make Author: Franz Kafka make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the between all the easier". quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be face against her father's arm. couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm down the room. wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was face against her father's arm. After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family"