really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, First posted: May 13, 2002 first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their they went away together on tip-toe. 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He had first to slowly turn himself thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to he do anything to make them look away. listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to page at http://pglaf.org no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the Translated by David Wyllie whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that Project Gutenberg-tm works. calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution still just a child after all, and really might not have had an fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like looked. steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, DAMAGE. permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished "My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, Grete. frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished slightly. In this way they went round the room several times see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at greatest consideration so that his family could bear the 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the http://gutenberg.net/license). happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. 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He was not even startled out of this state curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project worry they had been having of late her cheeks had become pale, but, round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the business considerations." 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His have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair from the wall. 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But since he had Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do himself. going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his broad to get it all underneath. fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. 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However hard he threw had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. travelling salesmen. some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with down into the middle of the dinner table. by himself. pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. 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"My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, of receipt of the work. Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever and wept so that his powerful chest shook. hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; expression in her eyes. responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination I corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him at this thought. that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. Title: Metamorphosis instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few down into the middle of the dinner table. politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was people in all walks of life. agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, there was still some money available from the old days. It was not money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help *** START: FULL LICENSE *** enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; First posted: May 13, 2002 been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The 1.E.9. Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far came back. immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would redistribution. where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It impose on them. front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project *** START: FULL LICENSE *** breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for he do anything to make them look away. there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room