One Hundred Years of Solitude

hurrying, he took out the chinaware and shattered it on the floor. Systematically, serenely, in the sa ...

breakable, from parlor to pantry, and he finished with the large earthen jar in the kitchen, whic ...

was no more lack of food. Amaranta Úrsula and little Aureliano would remember the rains as a h ...

Úrsula was their most amusing plaything. They looked upon her as a big,. broken-down doll that they ...

excitement as the wanderings of her mind. Something, indeed, must have happened to her mind during the thi ...

into such an insane state of confusion that she thought little Aureliano was her son the colone ...

time, but who had existed at different times. Sitting on the bed, her hair covered with ashes and her fac ...

her, and she would weep with them over deaths that were much more recent than the guests themsel ...

remembered the fortune buried in some place that only Úrsula knew, but the questions and astute m ...

skillful and strict that when Aureliano Segundo instructed one of his carousing companions to pass him ...

the pretext that they were making some drainage canals in the courtyard and the backyard, and he ...

began by explaining that any attempt would be useless unless Úrsula cut the cards. On the other ha ...

warned that it would not be found until it stopped raining and the suns of three consecutive Junes ...

three years in order to satisfy the conditions of the prediction. The first thing that startled him, even ...

digging crew to make the ditches three feet deeper. Overcome by an exploratory delirium comparable only ...

distant air and the withdrawn attitude. He no longer bothered with the children. He ate at odd hours, muddled ...

abnegation, and his thick- headedness perseverance, and her insides tightened with remorse over the v ...

backyard, and he excavated so deeply under the foundations of the east wing of the house that one ...

search because of that. Even when his last hopes had been extinguished and the only thing that see ...

obvious from one moment to the next that it was going to clear. That was what happened. On Friday at ...