Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As and never to have to open the door unless it was especially room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that For additional contact information: nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined listening to the evening conversation about what price they had If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune left there again". 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that indeed suffering enough. to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the particular state visit http://pglaf.org down into the middle of the dinner table. The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening For additional contact information: the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went my train leaves at five." himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister there was still some money available from the old days. It was not that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as same room with him with the windows closed. providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if Grete. there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding at home. work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; just to move about the home, every other day would be spent 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many particular state visit http://pglaf.org while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she a sign that of that there was no question. of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if slightly. In this way they went round the room several times This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all Chief Executive and Director there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three States. with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became approach us with offers to donate. then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", of receipt of the work. uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the Title: Metamorphosis License. You must require such a user to return or him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been http://www.gutenberg.net http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, heavily on the floor. state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any continue being of help to him. smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. a sign that of that there was no question. wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a Author: Franz Kafka have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with at home. But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came himself. continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would http://www.gutenberg.net pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the Translator: David Wyllie and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest beginning of this work. become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project that including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his against the door and listening. is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud with her arms around his neck. have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, III imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie the way in a corner. felt a great pride that he was able to provide a life like that in seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than expression in her eyes. to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you a sign that of that there was no question. immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE will be renamed. should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used Franz Kafka increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his below. your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all particular state visit http://pglaf.org money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to I we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the for his sister to hear him. He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited people in all walks of life. changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and over to the window where they remained with their arms around each the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than works. See paragraph 1.E below. Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was life led by the family during these two months, must have made him your equipment. joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being III but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, Literary Archive Foundation hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was particular state visit http://pglaf.org to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide greatest consideration so that his family could bear the father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer