One Hundred Years of Solitude

into the sea. One night of uncertainty, when Pilar Ternera was singing in the courtyard with the ...

mouth. Two days later someone gave an orderly a mug of black coffee and the orderly passed it on to so ...

and arched and his tongue was sticking out between his teeth. Úrsula fought against death over him. Af ...

another week. Only then did he learn that his verses had not been burned. I didnt want to be hasty, ...

reading his poetry. He started writing again. For many hours, balancing on the edge of the surprises of a war w ...

friend: why are you fighting? What other reason could there be? Colonel Gerineldo Márquez answered ...

Gerineldo Márquez said. Colonel Aureliano Buendía was amused at his alarm. Naturally, he said. But in any ...

with the armed groups in the interior of the country until the leaders of the party publicly r ...

substantial savings. He named Colonel Gerineldo Márquez civil and military leader of Macondo and he ...

Fragile, timid, with natural good manners, he was, however, better suited for war than for governme ...

parents house he would have lunch at Úrsulas two or three times a week. He initiated Aureliano José in th ...

time she was so illusioned with her lonely passion for Pietro Crespi that she laughed at him. ...

they spent several hours talking about the past. When I get out of here Im going to marry you, ...

Márquezs parents and accompany them to the jail. On one of those Saturdays Úrsula was surprise ...

Amaranta feigned a reaction of displeasure. I dont have to go around hunting for men, ...

the rebel forces did not surrender Riohacha. The visits stopped. Amaranta shut herself up to weep, overwh ...

execution and promised that she would take charge of attracting Gerineldo Márquez herself when the w ...

that he would remember his plan to marry Amaranta. Her pleas seemed to be answered. On the days ...

was really making an effort to kindle in her heart the forgotten ashes of her youthful passion. With ...

Márquez repeated his wish to marry her, she rejected him. Im not going to marry anyone, she told ...