One Hundred Years of Solitude

father, Úrsula told him. He stopped for an instant in front of the chestnut tree and once again he saw that ...

smiling, that a person doesnt die when he should but when he can. The omen of the, dead father stirred ...

plaster Saint Joseph were buried. Youll never know, she told him with a firmness inspired by an old l ...

fortune of such mad size that the mere mention of it left Aureliano Segundo awash in amazement. His o ...

Nevertheless he insisted with such perseverance, begged in such a way, broke his code of dignity to s ...

would help him start the total war. At a certain time Colonel Gerineldo Márquez was really the ...

had been faithful to him until the defeat. With them he waged the sad war of daily humiliation ...

did not cause them as much damage as the corrosive war of eternal postponements. Even Colonel Gerineldo ...

light in a borrowed house. The last veterans of whom he had word had appeared photographed in a ...

were still waiting for a letter in the shadow of public charity, dying of hunger, living through rage, ...

a shudder of compassion. Oh, Aureliano, he sighed. I already knew that you were old, but now ...

Chapter 13 IN THE BEWILDERMENT of her last years, Úrsula had had very little free time to attend to ...

time between Fernandas rigidity and Amarantas bitterness, at almost the same moment reached the age ...

not put the blame on her staggering old age or the dark clouds that barely permitted her to make out the ...

past, she thought, children took a long time to grow up. All one had to do was remember a ...

One had to see only the days of sun and dew that poor José Arcadio Buendía went through under the chestnu ...

enough time for the children, to see from the whites of their eyes that they needed a dose of castor oil ...

all sides as she tried to meddle in everything and as she annoyed strangers with her questions as to wh ...

no one discovered that she was blind. She had noticed it before the birth of José Arcadio. At first sh ...

first bulbs she was only able to perceive the glow. She did not tell anyone about it because it would hav ...