One Hundred Years of Solitude

sign of timidity and with a natural pleasant manner that had not shown itself until then. Aurelia ...

greatest men. Nevertheless, that surge of humanity did not alter his professional conduc ...

Segundo and Santa Sofía de la Piedad saw the Arab eyes of José Arcadio Segundo at the moment when the ...

seventy-two chamberpots piled up in the cupboards. Then he turned on the light. José Arcadio Segundo ...

clarity, the same respite from dust and destruction that Aureliano Segundo had known in childhood ...

not understand. He paused with his glance on the space where Aureliano Segundo and Santa Soft de la Pied ...

with the same eyes as Colonel Aureliano Buendía. Its obvious that no one has been in that roo ...

and had tried to show it to him with countless examples drawn from his own experience. He had b ...

Aureliano Buendía was nothing but a faker or an imbecile. He could not understand why he had neede ...

during his previous life, and the only fear that remained was that they would bury him alive. He to ...

Melquíades many times, and with so much more pleasure when he could not understand them. He became accu ...

rest of the family forgot about him including Fernanda, who did not mind leaving him there when she f ...

chamberpots, which were placed on the floor and all of which had been used several times. José Arcadio Seg ...

enough for his brother to see repeated in it the irreparable fate of his great-grandfather. There were ...

Chapter 16 IT RAINED FOR four years, eleven months, and two days. There were periods of drizzle durin ...

sign of redoubled rain. The sky crumbled into a set of destructive storms and out of the north came ...

of those who worked hardest not to be conquered by idleness. He had gone home for some minor matter on the ...

Since his clothes were at Petra Cotess, every three days he would take off what he had on and ...

toolbox that the gypsies must have left behind in José Arcadio Buendías days, and no one knew whether beca ...

was able to tie his own shoes again. Watching him putting in latches and repairing clocks, Fernanda wonde ...