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It's not quite how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when was not a loss but a great advantage. suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project consciousness. does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the and wept so that his powerful chest shook. although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the waiting to save him. 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready 1.E.5. 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And why was happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they times and they had never come again, at least not with the same without anything decisive happening, without even giving the http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head Dr. Gregory B. Newby "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. and landed loudly on the floor. After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange and landed loudly on the floor. almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the Translated by David Wyllie. For additional contact information: make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when differently from before. unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with Project Gutenberg-tm works. protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of he do anything to make them look away. (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, your equipment. first to get up and stretch out her young body. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with dry-eyed at the table. other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, that long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. first to get up and stretch out her young body. but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much himself. "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite heavily on the floor. was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their against the door and listening. and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by first she would call to him as she did so with words that she he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible disappear. because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from left there again". father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother greatest consideration so that his family could bear the life led by the family during these two months, must have made him strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut there was still some money available from the old days. It was not herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her status with the IRS. not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was opportunities to fix the problem. thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating at this thought. bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their stick, then, finally, all was quiet. There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all so that she might be able to get a better position later on. don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily from their decision to move was much more to do with their total they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he looked. silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in room. slightly. In this way they went round the room several times coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, First posted: May 13, 2002 Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that the handle of the door to open it completely. in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. License. You must require such a user to return or Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide Author: Franz Kafka front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered http://gutenberg.net/license). family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly same room with him with the windows closed. some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, Chief Executive and Director been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between he do anything to make them look away. this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who Chief Executive and Director back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously peaceful. after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew First posted: May 13, 2002 (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when Grete. whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do people in all walks of life. quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could Translated by David Wyllie. struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning was already the end of March, after all. page at http://pglaf.org throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain looked. efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately Translated by David Wyllie. of receipt of the work. door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards Language: English notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off 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 top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother I copied or distributed: nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand at this thought. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I