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Contents By Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III, the Last Chapter By Guy de Maupassant: The Englishman The Piece of String The Necklace A Crisis The Will Love: Three Pages from a Sportsman’s Book The Inn Was It a Dream? 2 © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc The Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka 3 © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2009 Tantor Media, Inc © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc © 2008 Tantor Media, Inc Chapter I AS Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from a troubled dream, he found himself changed in his bed to some monstrous kind of vermin. He lay on his back, which was as hard as armor plate, and, raising his head a little, he could see the arch of his great, brown belly, divided by bowed corrugations. The bedcover was slipping helplessly off the summit of the curve, and Gregor’s legs, pitiably thin compared with their former size, fluttered helplessly before his eyes. “What has happened to me?” he thought.