One Hundred Years of Solitude

the jubilation of the young people: the pianola. They delivered it broken down, packed in several boxes ...

Italian expert, Pietro Crespi, to assemble and tune the pianola, to instruct the purchasers in its f ...

suffocating heat he would work in his brocade vest and heavy coat of dark cloth. Soaked in sweat, keep ...

and the tormenting hammering and the constant noise of wooden lathings ceased in a silence that ...

the hope of getting a daguerreotype of the invisible player. That day the Italian had lunch with th ...

keeping time with a metronome, under the friendly eye of Úrsula, who did not leave the room for a m ...

over and the Italian left Macondo. Then they began to organize the party. Úrsula drew up ...

the oldest friends of José Arcadio Buendías house since before they undertook the exodus and the fo ...

whose activity had been reduced to the maintenance from his scanty resources of two policemen armed w ...

beautiful girls in Iowa, and the most skilled at the new dances, they did not manage to be considered ...

image of God, convinced of His nonexistence, and he took the pianola apart in order to decipher its mag ...

been as many surprises and as much dashing about as in those days, but the new pitch lamps were li ...

together in the parlor, facing the unknown invention that had been covered with a white sheet. Those ...

then, crumbling with decrepitude, used the arts of his timeless wisdom in an attempt to fix it. Finally Jos ...

stubborn descendants of the twenty-one intrepid people who plowed through the mountains in search of th ...

melodies. It was extremely pleasant and so chaste in its way that Úrsula ceased her vigilance. On the ...

with the onlookers, had a fight, biting and hair pulling, with a woman who had dared to comment that ...

weeping that lasted for several days, the cause of which was not known even by Amaranta. Her herme ...

reinforced many times and with the arms gone. No one had discovered that even at that age she still ...

the conversation and a tear of nostalgia would salt her palate when she saw the strips of damp earth a ...