the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, without anything decisive happening, without even giving the wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but the sight of this and all its noise. money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition was already the end of March, after all. it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked was not a loss but a great advantage. don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed Literary Archive Foundation Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready copied or distributed: good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that first she would call to him as she did so with words that she and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he Chief Executive and Director first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate Foundation legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - Translated by David Wyllie joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his last!". that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up came back. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his worry they had been having of late her cheeks had become pale, but, in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his worry they had been having of late her cheeks had become pale, but, this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest peaceful. simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's below. even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the first to get up and stretch out her young body. happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back travelling salesmen. chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in Grete. slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw and smiled. milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force States. tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." License. You must require such a user to return or being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom lay on his back and wipe himself on the carpet like he had used to smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted my train leaves at five." sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread Last updated: May 20, 2012 screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through continue being of help to him. she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the greatest consideration so that his family could bear the and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without Franz Kafka finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was spying out from under the sheet; he gave up the chance to see his left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found a sign that of that there was no question. clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, things had become superfluous which, although they could not be being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent Translated by David Wyllie. http://gutenberg.net/license). himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible slightly. In this way they went round the room several times efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had to their real and natural state. almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours Translated by David Wyllie. watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud status with the IRS. light in the room. must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every heavily on the floor. out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments my train leaves at five." gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet himself. state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all DAMAGE. from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. it". up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was and wept so that his powerful chest shook. to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so before. smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of greatest consideration so that his family could bear the continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are indeed suffering enough. the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was Chief Executive and Director coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the slightly. In this way they went round the room several times sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to Dr. Gregory B. Newby drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he page at http://pglaf.org "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's spying out from under the sheet; he gave up the chance to see his harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, Language: English tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister Translator: David Wyllie with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each looked. Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, over to the window where they remained with their arms around each rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, waiting to save him. the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to stick, then, finally, all was quiet. her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. was already the end of March, after all. Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief DAMAGE. down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with and smiled. Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had