One Hundred Years of Solitude

time and the letters from her children. In the detailed messages that she sent them every two week ...

was more and more like the colonial mansion of her parents. Fernanda would wander alone among the ...

that he had gone out into the street to propose a war without any future to Colonel Gerineldo Márquez, ...

stopped selling them when he found out that people were buying them not as pieces of jewelry but as hist ...

she told him. Its not a question of a heart, he said. The rooms getting full of moths. Am ...

answered when she was asked through Úrsula, and that answer planted an enigma in Fernandas h ...

carried it on her hand in the black bandage, which she did not take off even to sleep and which she wash ...

The greatest worry that Fernanda had during her years of abandonment was that Meme would come ...

notice the sadness of the house. Every year for two months Aureliano Segundo played his role ...

the latter had not known bitterness and was arousing the house with her dance steps at the age ...

herself up in the parlor at two in the afternoon to practice the clavichord with an inflexible discipline. ...

inheritance was revealed on her third vacation, when Meme appeared at the house with four nuns and ...

It was necessary to borrow beds and hammocks from the neighbors, to set up nine shifts at the ...

turns for lunch and then for dinner, and for the whole week they were able to take onl ...

precisely where she was most in the way. On another day the nuns got all excited because Colonel ...

say was to ask what those handfuls of white powder were. Arsenic, Amaranta answered. The nig ...

seventy-two chamberpots but she only managed to change the nocturnal problem into a morning one, because from d ...

and even at the time of the greatest heat they would scamper through the garden. When they ...

room. The locked room, about which the spiritual life of the house revolved in former times, was ...

did not seem to bother him who was correct, and if he found out about the fate of the ro ...