One Hundred Years of Solitude

should surrender the town without resistance on the condition that the lives and property of Liberals ...

answered, I have brought nothing of the sort. Its easy to understand that under the present circumstances ...

by Colonel Aureliano Buendía. But anyone could have bought it before the war or stolen it, and i ...

sufficient to attempt a landing at the end of the year. With faith in that plan, Colonel Aureliano Buendía wa ...

defeat was more and more concrete. Toward the end of March, before a dawn of premature rain, the ten ...

apiece. But among them, his former pupils, excited by the high-sounding proclamations, the determination reigned ...

undergo the indignity of dying in the stocks in these womens clothes, he said to him. If I have ...

barricades had been broken and the defenders were openly fighting in the streets, first until they u ...

nightgown and with two old pistols that had belonged to José Arcadio Buendía. He gave his rif ...

as slippery and as smooth as melted soap, and one had to guess distances in the darkness. Arcadio left Ama ...

Come along in the name of God, she shouted at him. Theres been enough madness! ...

resistance had been wiped out in less than half an hour. Not a single one of Arcadios men had survive ...

accurate aim with which he placed his twenty cartridges gave the impression that the barracks was ...

womans full head of hair held at the neck with a comb and on his neck a chain with a smal ...

At dawn, after a summary court martial, Arcadio was shot against the wall of the ce ...

Úrsula, who at that hour must have been under the chestnut tree having coffee with José Arcadio Buendía. ...

her shoulders and her eyelashes, which looked as if they were artificial. He thought about his peo ...

charges did not have merit enough, the president was saying, the irresponsible and criminal boldness ...

Arcadio found the formality of death ridiculous. Death really did not matter to him but life did, ...

Úrsula. He paused and said it again: Úrsula, like her grandmother. And tell her also that if the ...