One Hundred Years of Solitude

animal skeletons covered with red lilies, the last memories of the hordes of newcomers who ...

terraces for breezy card- playing afternoons, seemed to have been blown away in an anticipation of th ...

of the founding, where later on the banana plantations flourished, was a bog of rotting roots, on ...

Macondo before it had been struck by the banana company hurricane, were sitting in the middle of the street ...

was again what it had been earlier, in the days when the Arabs with slippers and rings in their ...

spread over the doors were splotched with mold, the counters undermined by termites, the walls eaten ...

Aureliano Buendías thirty- two wars. Their strength of spirit in the face of ruins of the gaming tables, ...

had done so as not to drown, and one after the other, from door to door, they returned a crafty smile a ...

by the storm. but she had managed to keep her house standing. During the second year she ...

strength that would allow her to survive the misfortune, and she had discovered a reflective and just ...

sunken eyelids and skin spangled with mange, but she was writing out numbers on small pieces of ...

Unless you plan to raffle off bones. Then she told him to look in the bedroom and Aureliano Segundo s ...

and fed it on the percale sheets, the Persian rugs, the plush bedspreads, the velvet drapes, a ...

Chapter 17 ÚRSULA HAD to make a great effort to fulfill her promise to die when it cleared. ...

and petrified the piles of mud, and ended up scattering over Macondo the burning dust that covered the ...

rosaries and old Arab necklaces that they had hung all over her body, and for the first time sinc ...

that she was having trouble with her body, but they still did not think she was blind. She did not ...

hinges, and the family menaced by a spirit of resignation and despair that was inconceivable in her t ...

undermining the foundations of the house. One day she opened the trunk with the saints and ...

dawn, she would use anybody available, even the children. She put the few articles of clothing t ...