One Hundred Years of Solitude

her knees, emerald and topaz rings, and with her straight hair in a smooth bun held behind her ears ...

Good Lord, she shouted, more gay than alarmed, its obvious that theres no woman in this ...

hundred canaries, and her husbands velocipede, broken down in a special case which allowed him to carry ...

brought the rose bushes back to life, uprooted the weeds, and planted ferns, oregano, and begonias again ...

breathed once more the atmosphere of youth and festivity that had existed during the days of ...

mementos and piles of useless trash and articles of superstition that had been piling up in th ...

and that the only way to drive them out was to look for the treasures they had left buried, she replied ...

my darling cannibal has grown! Before he had a chance to react she had already put a record on ...

street when he was spending too much time in Melquíades room. Active, small, and indomitable like Úrsula, ...

she had not been wrong about the models that she designed herself and sewed on Amarantas primitive pedal ma ...

woman with that spirit would have returned to a dead town burdened by dust and heat, and much ...

nor did she do anything that did not have as an aim the search for a comfortable life and a peaceful ...

there she chose the finest twenty-five pairs of canaries so that she could repopulate the skies o ...

Úrsula had built during the first reconstruction of the house. Also in vain were the artificial nests ...

Isles. A year after her return, although she had not succeeded in making any friends or giving an ...

got off the train he realized that his wifes determination had been provoked by a nostalgic mira ...

looking through a magnifying glass at the tiny spiders that emerged. Later on, thinking that Amaranta Ú ...

sent in jam jars to his former professor of natural history at the University of Ličge where he had done ...

boater, and he would carry a willow stick in his hand. His pale eyes accentuated his look of a sailo ...

with the leash around his neck and his circus bicycle, would not have thought that he had mad ...