One Hundred Years of Solitude

calculation spoiled the one she considered the most effective: removing the mothballs that Rebeca had ...

foreseen. When she opened the dresser and unfolded first the papers and then the protective cloth, she ...

than a month until the wedding, but Amparo Moscote promised to sew a new dress within a week. A ...

waiting for that hour, because if she had not been able to conceive the ultimate obstacle to Reb ...

infinite patience, Amaranta made several mistakes in her crocheting and pricked her finger with the ...

and indefinite postponement. One week before the date set for the wedding, little Remedios woke up in ...

God with such fervor for something fearful to happen so that she would not have to poison Rebeca tha ...

and her merry vitality overflowed the four walls of the bedroom and went like a whirlwind of good heal ...

food, she would help him with his daily necessities, wash him with soap and a scrubbing ...

and brought to the house and baptized in an intimate ceremony with the name Aureliano José, Remedios de ...

the morning. They would both visit the Moscotes every night. Aureliano would play endless games of domi ...

government to build a school so that Arcadio, who had inherited the educational enthusiasm of his gr ...

street and he closed down several scandalous establishments that prospered in the center of town. Once he r ...

would say to him. But his sedentary life, which accentuated his cheekbones and concentrated the spa ...

both their families that when Remedios announced that she was going to have a child. even Rebeca ...

period of closed doors and windows, with no one entering or leaving except on matters of utmost necessity. ...

girl in a pleated skirt, white boots, and with an organdy band around her head, and they we ...

Crespi would tiptoe in at dusk, with a black ribbon on his hat, and he would pay a silent visit to Re ...

worried about again, as if the lovers, who in other days had sabotaged the lamps in order to kiss, had been ...

someone pushed open the street door at two in the afternoon in the mortal silence of the heat a ...