One Hundred Years of Solitude

to the workshop. This is a disaster, he said. Look at the air, listen to the buzzing of the s ...

gave him a mechanical bear that walked on its hind legs on a tightrope, but he could not dist ...

into the air but it could not lift itself. On Thursday he appeared in the workshop again with the painf ...

previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time. ...

that it was Monday. Then he grabbed the bar from a door and with the savage violence of his uncommon strengt ...

Aureliano asked the neighbors for help. Ten men were needed to get him down, fourteen to tie him up, twenty to ...

state of total innocence. They spoke to him and he looked at them without recognizing them, saying things ...

Chapter 5 AURELIANO BUENDÍA and Remedios Moscote were married one Sunday in March before the altar Father Nicanor ...

Remedios had reached puberty before getting over the habits of childhood. In spite of the fact that ...

upon. There was barely enough time to teach her how to wash herself, get dressed by herself, and ...

so amazed at the revelation that she wanted to talk to everybody about the details of the wedding ...

several bands, and she waved with her hand and gave her thanks with a smile to those who wished he ...

and led her to the altar. She behaved as naturally, with such discretion, that she did not lose her ...

before it rolled to the door, and came back blushing to the altar. Her mother and sisters suffered ...

face of adverse circumstances was revealed. It was she who, on her own initiative, put aside the lar ...

gratitude and at the piece of cake with his fingers, mumbling an unintelligible psalm. The only un ...

mothers imminent death. The wedding was postponed. Pietro Crespi left for the capital of the province ...

party, after having worn out five horses on the road in an attempt to be in time for his wedding. It ...

had brought from the swamp to officiate at the wedding- was an old man hardened by the ingratitude of his ...

at the hardness of the inhabitants of Macondo, who were prospering in the midst of scandal, subject ...