One morn­ing, when Gre­gor Samsa woke from trou­bled dreams, he found him­self trans­formed in his bed into a hor­ri­ble ver­min. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a lit­tle he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sec­tions. One morn­ing, when Gre­gor Samsa woke from trou­bled dreams, he found him­self trans­formed in his bed into a hor­ri­ble vermin.