One Hundred Years of Solitude

Chapter 15 THE EVENTS that would deal Macondo its fatal blow were just showing themselves wh ...

scandals, so that Fernanda was able to count on an atmosphere that enabled her to keep the child h ...

determination to drown him in the bathroom cistern. She locked him up in Colonel Aureliano Buendías o ...

version of the floating basket. Aureliano Segundo, having broken finally with his wife because of the ir ...

hair, and with an impressive sex organ that was like a turkeys wattles, as if he were not a human ...

Mauricio Babilonia with his shattered spinal column, Fernanda had worked out the most minute details of a ...

Lets go, Renata, she told her. She gave no explanation. Meme, for her part, did ...

the shot in the backyard and the simultaneous cry of pain from Mauricio Babilonia. When her mother ordered ...

was a determination of her will or whether she had become mute because of the impact of the tragedy. ...

shirts playing cards on the terraces. She did not see the oxcarts on the dusty roads loaded down with ...

butterflies fluttered about and in the doorways of which there were green and squalid children sitting o ...

of the groves ended and the train went through a poppy- laden plain where the carbonized skeleton of ...

swamp, she got out of the train because Fernanda made her. They got into a small carriage ...

riverboat, the wooden wheel of which had a sound of conflagration, and whose rusted metal plates re ...

and her stomach rejected even water. Not even she herself knew that her fertility had outwitted th ...

had passed when she saw the last yellow butterfly destroyed in the blades of the fan and she admitted ...

looking for the most beautiful woman who had ever appeared on the face of the earth, and when ...

wrapped in the shreds of curtains that they pulled off the windows and that fell to pieces with ever ...

somber building that Meme recognized immediately from her mothers stories of the convent where they had ...

etamine dress with small black flowers and stiff high shoes which were swollen by the cold of the ...