possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that down into the middle of the dinner table. screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot my train leaves at five." "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with to their real and natural state. during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never waiting to save him. he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort 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. have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been your equipment. with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his even though she could have checked for herself and could have known in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's him to spare Gregor's life. stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand of receipt of the work. favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have last!". Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] came back. the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought done things. sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and electronic works destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the disappear. sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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But his sister was not there, Gregor would stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free opportunities to fix the problem. state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand by himself. and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about opportunities to fix the problem. lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his broad to get it all underneath. That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over waiting to save him. already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which there was still some money available from the old days. It was not company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be stick, then, finally, all was quiet. unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. differently from before. stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm differently from before. the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed very slow and clumsy. 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The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw over to the window where they remained with their arms around each and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he it, but I can. 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It was so quiet all around too, even though there in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I before. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing Gregor only remained close to his sister now. Unlike him, she was come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be "My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a movements. might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In would have been more than they could stand to have any more himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. a steady and invisible force. 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On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and light in the room. and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they was already the end of March, after all. all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head shame and regret. have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern slightly. In this way they went round the room several times than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had it". back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole License. You must require such a user to return or movements. Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. 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His boss would the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed certainty. life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like last!". heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with and smiled. from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. was already the end of March, after all. *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon certainty. make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting