One Hundred Years of Solitude

him fill in the answers, sometimes in his house but most of the time among the ceramic bottles ...

ending at every moment but never ending its ending. The town had reached such extremes of inactivity t ...

were letting themselves be dragged off to death with the age-old custom of sitting in their doorways, ...

intolerance and dill pickles in Prattville, Alabama, was a plain of wild grass. The ancient priest who had t ...

forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was di ...

Gaston had returned to Brussels. Tired of waiting for the airplane, one day he put his indispensable things ...

first love, Aureliano and Amaranta Úrsula had continued taking advantage of her husbands rare unguarded m ...

unhinging, which made Fernandas bones tremble with horror in her grave and which kept them in a state of ...

bewilderment of passion she watched the ants devastating the garden, sating their prehistoric hunger with the ...

wise Catalonian. They lost their sense of reality, the notion of time, the rhythm of daily habits. Th ...

short time they did more damage than the red ants: they destroyed the furniture in the parl ...

as his rival, it was Amaranta Úrsula who ruled in that paradise of disaster with her mad genius and ...

becoming more and more absorbed and silent, for his passion was self-centered and burning. Neve ...

much richer than those of desire. While he would rub Amaranta Úrsulas erect breasts with egg whi ...

ties and little tinfoil hats. One night they daubed themselves from head to toe with peach jam and licked ...

She felt him to be so far away and busy that his return seemed impossible to her. In one of his first ...

plane back might take two years. So Amaranta Úrsula dismissed the possibility of an inopportune ...

the old newspapers and empty bottles that the chambermaids threw out of a gloomy hotel on the Rue ...

smelled of boiled cauliflower where Rocamadour was to die. Nevertheless, news about him was slowly becoming ...

Suddenly, like the stampede in that world of happy unawareness, came the news of Gastons return ...