One Hundred Years of Solitude

see if she was any larger than the Christ child, and one afternoon they hid her in a closet in the Pan ...

age. Úrsula was startled. Im alive! she said. You can see. Amaranta Úrsula said, suppres ...

Then Úrsula gave in to the evidence. My God, she exclaimed in a low voice. So this is wha ...

burning by Remedios daguerreotype, and never to let any Buendía marry a person of the same blood ...

will find it. Santa Sofía de la Piedad had the certainty that they would find her dead from one mo ...

across the sky. They found her dead on the morning of Good Friday. The last time that they ...

and very few people were at the funeral, partly because there wet not many left who remembered her, and ...

away so many dead birds, especially at siesta time, and the men dumped them into the river by the ca ...

beast whose breath scorched the air and whose look brought on the birth of monsters in newlywed wo ...

were so clear and unmistakable that those who went to look at them had no doubt about the existen ...

loud bellowing of a calf that was coming from nearby. When they got there a group of men were alre ...

with rough hair, plagued with small ticks, and the skin was hardened with the scales of a remora fish, ...

woodsmans ax. They hung it to an almond tree in the square by its ankles so that everyone could s ...

women did not bear the predicted monsters, nor did the intensity of the heat decrease. ...

shrimp, with her head bald from ringworm and her finger in her mouth. Aureliano Segundo took charge ...

That was how everything went after the deluge. The indolence of the people was in contras ...

times by Colonel Aureliano Buendía, and they spent a whole afternoon looking for someone who could ...

ceremony. It was also around that time that the gypsies returned, the last heirs to Melquíades ...

rays with the giant magnifying glass, and there was no lack of people standing open-mouthed watching ...

thing that was left of the long train to which Mr. Brown would couple his glass- topped coach wit ...