One Hundred Years of Solitude

When he said it he did not raise his eyes from the first little fish of the day becau ...

the best or the harshest of circumstances. After lunch he felt the drowsiness of inactivity. Because o ...

down in the hammock, removing the wax from his ears with a penknife, and in a few minutes ...

he knew that the image would be erased from his memory when he awakened because that recurrent d ...

had time to dream anything. Not today. he told the barber. Well make it on Friday. He had a t ...

in his armpits. The sky had cleared but the sun had not come out. Colonel Aureliano Buen ...

wooden box until habit told him that it was time to start work again. During the time he lingered he ...

remembered that Colonel Gerineldo Márquez had once promised to get him a horse with a white star on its ...

On his way back to the workshop, seeing that the air was beginning to dry out, he decided that it ...

drizzle, was filled with flying ants. Then he came to the realization that he felt like urinating a ...

trap of nostalgia and relived that prodigious afternoon Of the gypsies when his father took him ...

were watching the parade. He saw a woman dressed in gold sitting on the head of an elephant. He saw ...

nothing but the bright expanse of the street and the air full of flying ants with a few onlookers peeri ...

motionless with his forehead against the trunk of the chestnut tree. The family did not find him until ...

Chapter 14 MEMES LAST VACATIONS coincided with the period of mourning for Colonel Aureliano Buendía. The shutt ...

practice during the heat of siesta time had a funereal echo. In spite of her secret hostility ...

have done some. thing to regain her privileges as his legitimate wife because the following year ...

the virtuosity with which she executed popular melodies of the seventeenth century at the gathering organized ...

she became a different girl, one whose unforeseen maturity gave her the air of an adult. That ...

have been the same. Since she had been very small she had been troubled by Fernandas strictness, ...