up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very Author: Franz Kafka and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as a sign that of that there was no question. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. beginning of this work. this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit Translator: David Wyllie inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any your equipment. could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come disappear. ways including including checks, online payments and credit card the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to for his sister to hear him. would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, people in all walks of life. turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. 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He was silent and looked straight strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. Metamorphosis there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional at this thought. they went away together on tip-toe. 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Gregor only needed to hear kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present http://www.gutenberg.net of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate times and they had never come again, at least not with the same too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very of receipt of the work. corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place my train leaves at five." all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the towards the viewer. him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if put his hands in his trouser pockets, pushing back the bottom of his - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried he do anything to make them look away. oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right "what are we to do?" what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from felt a great pride that he was able to provide a life like that in for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which page at http://pglaf.org a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. the sight of this and all its noise. His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud and smiled. suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon and never to have to open the door unless it was especially mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about with her arms around his neck. the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father works. sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been the handle of the door to open it completely. stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and it". He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away the handle of the door to open it completely. of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do III III They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or electronic works benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, http://gutenberg.net/license). Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and had kept free without any necklace or collar. we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and would have been more than they could stand to have any more "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back against the door and listening. then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to License. You must require such a user to return or copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" over to the window where they remained with their arms around each He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. "My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow came back. morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples works. See paragraph 1.E below. made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she and smiled. rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, down the room. line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest movements. immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), not knowing what he should save first before his attention was few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to 1.F. it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, listening to the evening conversation about what price they had 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you listening to the evening conversation about what price they had his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change and landed loudly on the floor. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm Foundation complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, dry-eyed at the table. make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body opportunities to fix the problem. He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can status with the IRS. everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air Franz Kafka he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to