ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his with him. But as it is ..." cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by DAMAGE. what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the the handle of the door to open it completely. you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming there was still some money available from the old days. It was not prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight himself. TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE 1.F. INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, between all the easier". couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered Translated by David Wyllie. had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been heavily on the floor. strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled Last updated: May 20, 2012 this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom life led by the family during these two months, must have made him Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after Chief Executive and Director the way in a corner. because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and came back. that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest Gregor only remained close to his sister now. Unlike him, she was of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where first to get up and stretch out her young body. shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value with him. But as it is ..." been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally 1.E.9. hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with they quickly finished their letters. just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed of receipt of the work. set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. Franz Kafka tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel broad to get it all underneath. closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR at this thought. door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. II Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do would have been more than they could stand to have any more in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without room. while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the they quickly finished their letters. cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short Translated by David Wyllie. suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to Gregor only remained close to his sister now. Unlike him, she was of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, and never to have to open the door unless it was especially screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared down into the middle of the dinner table. to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with that his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than at home. http://gutenberg.net/license). were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in down into the middle of the dinner table. couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" he do anything to make them look away. front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way they quickly finished their letters. hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might even though she could have checked for herself and could have known office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we Translated by David Wyllie. kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative Chief Executive and Director eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just redistribution. sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the Translated by David Wyllie. travelling salesmen. as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then had kept free without any necklace or collar. such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I below. before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed face against her father's arm. performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out same room with him with the windows closed. understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he had kept free without any necklace or collar. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. your equipment. possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I Translated by David Wyllie. joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to that serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall light in the room. "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would the handle of the door to open it completely. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and it". "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would him to spare Gregor's life. sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh waiting to save him. ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for first she would call to him as she did so with words that she work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of First posted: May 13, 2002 Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery I If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but