One Hundred Years of Solitude

adolescence, as before, when Petra Cotes had not loved him for himself but because she had him mixed ...

were getting ready to eat and without saying anything they would cover their plates and go into the bedroom ...

crystal mirrors. At the same time he was more of a carouser and spendthrift than ever. On the t ...

to be known, without distinctions of any kind. Even the slippery Mr. Brown, who talked only in a strange t ...

mumbled in one way or another to the accompaniment of the accordion. Cease, cows, Aureliano Segundo shouted at ...

chickens for the endless parties that the ground in the courtyard turned black and muddy with so mu ...

comparable only to that of José Arcadio when he came back from traveling around the world. The pr ...

irrational tourneys of capacity and resistance that were organized in the house of Petra Cotes. Aurelian ...

dispatched a dinner of veal, with cassava, yams, and fried bananas, and a case and a half of champagne ...

Segundo ate with great bites, overcome by the anxiety of victory, The Elephant was slicing her meat ...

personal charm that when Aureliano Segundo saw her enter the house he commented in a low ...

way the ideal woman. He was not mistaken. The reputation of a bone crusher that had preceded The Ele ...

any artificial stimulation of their appetites but through the absolute tranquility of their spirits. Her ...

fame as a great, unprincipled eater had spread throughout the country. From the first moment she saw ...

one had the juice of forty oranges, eight quarts of coffee, and thirty raw eggs. On the second mo ...

therefore, more dangerous than she had thought. Nevertheless, when Petra Cotes brought two roa ...

either, out of remorse for bringing on the death of her adversary. But Aureliano Segundo interpreted ...

they were throwing him from the top of a tower into a bottomless pit and in a last flash o ...

concubines bed. Petra Cotes had shined his patent leather boots that he wanted to wear in his coffin, ...

living at Petra Cotess but he would visit Fernanda every day and sometimes he would stay to eat with the ...