three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried was not a loss but a great advantage. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have peaceful. careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm II clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his things had become superfluous which, although they could not be continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite and landed loudly on the floor. redistribution. the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she left there again". work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down Translated by David Wyllie. unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the and smiled. a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend will be renamed. something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought "what are we to do?" It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment shame and regret. upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was ways including including checks, online payments and credit card he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with without anything decisive happening, without even giving the still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him with her arms around his neck. cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, was not a loss but a great advantage. Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at room. something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his differently from before. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just expression in her eyes. might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works between all the easier". his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. 1.E.9. The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn with him. But as it is ..." despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and the way in a corner. over to the window where they remained with their arms around each over to the window where they remained with their arms around each until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer they quickly finished their letters. But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been Translated by David Wyllie. one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the your equipment. not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood shame and regret. at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with indeed suffering enough. slightly. In this way they went round the room several times how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke my train leaves at five." taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I even though she could have checked for herself and could have known posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are Franz Kafka especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE of receipt of the work. him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to License. You must require such a user to return or him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that and landed loudly on the floor. lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to your equipment. "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the Title: Metamorphosis unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword Foundation as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed opportunities to fix the problem. And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, dry-eyed at the table. present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. listening to the evening conversation about what price they had Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking will be renamed. other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended and landed loudly on the floor. any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's electronic works listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in against the door and listening. him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning Translated by David Wyllie. his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm of receipt of the work. there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand the handle of the door to open it completely. the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, against the door and listening. back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought For additional contact information: Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face certainty. last!". with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at disappear. not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; that