One Hundred Years of Solitude

circumstances deepened and enriched. Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagina ...

before they were married, when the sports biplane in which he was making rolls over the sc ...

would pick up Amaranta Úrsula at the nuns boardinghouse where she lived, where the rules were not a ...

Macondo as the brightest and most peaceful town on earth, and of an enormous house, scented with oregano, ...

such strong tenacity that Gaston understood that she would not get married unless he took her to live ...

By that time he had dissected every dissectible insect in the region, he spoke Spanish like a native, and he h ...

liked the native cooking so much that once he ate eighty- two iguana eggs at one sitting. Amaran ...

visit and by that time her husband was not in a mood to appreciate her short skirts, her tilted felt ...

made one think of Fernanda and the hereditary vice of making something just to unmake it. Her festive gen ...

chairs or on the bare floor. The only thing that she needed to be completely happy was the bi ...

Melquíades room with the shy Aureliano. He took pleasure in recalling with him the most hidden corners o ...

English and French and a little Latin and Greek. Since he went out every afternoon at that time and ...

order to learn but to verify the truth of his knowledge, and that none of them interested him more ...

Gaston failed in his efforts to become intimate with him and had to seek other pastimes for his idle h ...

for the Belgian Congo, where his family had investments in palm oil. The marriage and the decision to spend ...

things were going to take a long time and he reestablished contact with his forgotten partners i ...

region, and the best routes for aerial navigation, without knowing that his diligence, so similar to that of ...

authorities, obtained licenses, and drew up contracts for exclusive rights. In the meantime he maintai ...

year after his first meditations and meteorological calculations, trusting in the repeated promises of hi ...

Amaranta Úrsula had brought on a radical change in Aurelianos life. After the death of José Arcadio he ...