"Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium spying out from under the sheet; he gave up the chance to see his last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office that spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that so that she might be able to get a better position later on. of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest peaceful. closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very Language: English And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to they quickly finished their letters. Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his put his hands in his trouser pockets, pushing back the bottom of his help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing travelling salesmen. day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did done things. the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they indeed suffering enough. unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on before. top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his Translated by David Wyllie only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. at this thought. compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to Literary Archive Foundation other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he he do anything to make them look away. most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. III business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should at home. like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. works. See paragraph 1.E below. a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with I called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, Translated by David Wyllie. morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his 1.F. company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back came back. company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they still just a child after all, and really might not have had an concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the was not a loss but a great advantage. give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his broad to get it all underneath. impose on them. donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side to their real and natural state. one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether room. the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, Chief Executive and Director going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family they quickly finished their letters. adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. was already the end of March, after all. illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their impose on them. opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, same room with him with the windows closed. differently from before. cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the 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 even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See certainty. or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had even though she could have checked for herself and could have known always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his DAMAGE. his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He between all the easier". do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the same room with him with the windows closed. same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made things had become superfluous which, although they could not be well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do my train leaves at five." uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will I might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones that Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not III sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was Title: Metamorphosis cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in things had become superfluous which, although they could not be Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their License. You must require such a user to return or practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room him to spare Gregor's life. sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at done things. of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she the sight of this and all its noise. all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the broad to get it all underneath. something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing subject to the trademark license, especially commercial Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the