One Hundred Years of Solitude

seven oclock on he would play dominoes with his father-in-law. At lunchtime he was chatting with Arcad ...

shooting Father Nicanor, of turning the church into a school, of instituting free love. Aureliano tri ...

workshop all upset. Wars broken out! War, in fact, had broken out three months before. ...

noiselessly before dawn, with two pieces of light artillery drawn by mules, and they set up their headquarter ...

law. Father Nicanor tried to impress the military authorities with the miracle of levitation and had ...

the town, Don Apolinar Moscote was once more a figurehead. The decisions were made by the arm ...

Aureliano entered Gerineldo Márquezs house and with his usual terseness asked for a mug of coffee wi ...

asked. With theirs, Aureliano replied. Tuesday at midnight in a mad operation, twenty-one men under ...

who had killed the woman. That same night, while the sound of the firing squad could be heard, ...

the revolutionary general Victorio Medina, who, according to the latest reports, was on his way to Manaure. Bef ...

high boots and with a rifle slung over his shoulder with the person he had played dominoes wit ...

Chapter 6 COLONEL AURELIANO BUENDÍA organized thirty- two armed uprisings and he lost them all. He had se ...

had reached the age of thirty- five. He survived fourteen attempts on his life, seventy- three ambushes, and a ...

the other, and the man most feared by the government, but he never let himself be photographed. He declined t ...

signing the Treaty of Neerlandia, which put an end to almost twenty years of civil war. He shot himself ...

with his twenty-one men to join the forces of General Victorio Medina. We leave Macondo ...

epaulets of a marshal, inspired by the prints in one of Melquíades books, and around his waist he buck ...

give outsiders an impression of invulnerability. It was a double-edged deception, for the government did ...

institute everything that came into his head. He imposed obligatory military service for men over eight ...

Liberal victory. In order that no one would doubt the severity of his aims, he ordered a firing s ...