But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his beginning of this work. his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just II would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good works. this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. not knowing what he should save first before his attention was he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when Translated by David Wyllie coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had there was still some money available from the old days. It was not "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving by himself. connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning 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 He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay Last updated: May 20, 2012 individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are over to the window where they remained with their arms around each around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and came back. stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let subject to the trademark license, especially commercial death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to Chief Executive and Director suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of face against her father's arm. course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm 1.F. enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever slightly. In this way they went round the room several times that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. "what are we to do?" that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made gbnewby@pglaf.org find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed 1.E.9. Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm to their real and natural state. side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite face against her father's arm. listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes without anything decisive happening, without even giving the required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how and wept so that his powerful chest shook. Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, Translator: David Wyllie "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular people in all walks of life. screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his indeed suffering enough. because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was the handle of the door to open it completely. white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not room. line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the approach us with offers to donate. (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I life led by the family during these two months, must have made him Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was 1.F. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her 1.F. foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the States. coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between Translated by David Wyllie bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven done things. think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current page at http://pglaf.org creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him Author: Franz Kafka come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had differently from before. came back. his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned Project Gutenberg-tm works. But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to without anything decisive happening, without even giving the I quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which expression in her eyes. the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite between all the easier". Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front Language: English sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." by himself. now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted even though she could have checked for herself and could have known stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would Gutenberg-tm License. straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to certainty. Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and Dr. Gregory B. Newby great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became against the door and listening. does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they "My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was works. although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own http://www.gutenberg.net sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the was not a loss but a great advantage. and landed loudly on the floor. on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by times and they had never come again, at least not with the same grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." Translator: David Wyllie fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited first she would call to him as she did so with words that she States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. States. during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. Foundation and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched broad to get it all underneath. of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again differently from before. little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven.