One Hundred Years of Solitude

rooms. She cleared out the rubble and cobwebs in the room where José Arcadio Buendía had ...

there was a clear indication that he had died, Santa Sofía de la Piedad tried all kinds of subterfuges ...

the doorjamb so that the stench would not knock her over, but she needed only two seconds to remember ...

everything. So much trouble teaching you good manners and you end up living like a pig. José ...

his head toward the door, tried to smile, and without knowing it repeated an old phrase of Úrsulas. ...

in his death cell, and once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, ...

abandoning the room that had given him peace terrified José Arcadio Segundo. He shouted that there was ...

Only then did Úrsula realize that he was in a world of shadows more impenetrable than hers, as un ...

been during his long captivity under the chestnut tree. At first Fernanda interpreted that bustle as ...

be seen watering the flowers four times a day so that her son would not have a bad impression of ...

Later on she sold the silver service and bought ceramic dishes, pewter bowls and soup spoons, a ...

buy the largest turtles around, let strangers come and spread their mats in the corners and urinate in the rose b ...

the little candy animals, and none of her descendants had inherited her strength. The house stayed closed ...

more animals with which they managed to set up a primitive lottery business. Aureliano Segundo ...

purchaser was getting a chance to win a pig for twenty cents or a calf for thirty-two, and ...

courtyard and many of those who were favored would slaughter the animals they had won right ther ...

show Aureliano Segundo himself how much his spirits had declined and to what a degree his skill as a ...

always on the verge of boredom and fatigue. For Petra Cotes, however, he had never been a better ...

which had been auctioned off to buy animals for the lottery, and from the lewd damasks and velvets, which ...

taking a bit away from here to put there, to that this bunch would be enough to keep Fernanda hap ...