One Hundred Years of Solitude

which when separated looked like scratching and scribbling, and which in the fine hand of Melquíades looke ...

Around the time of the riddle lottery, Aureliano Segundo began waking up with a knot in his throat, ...

oppressive that it was difficult for him to breathe, Aureliano Segundo visited Pilar Ternera to ...

throat wounded by the steel of the jack of spades, and she deduced that Fernanda was trying to get ...

all in the family album, he kept searching all through the house when his wife was not looking, and ...

they looked so suspicious to her that in any case she burned them in a bonfire she built in the ...

was breathing better. For her part, Fernanda interpreted the disappearance as a reprisal by the invisible docto ...

and the feeling that he was being strangled within by the claws of a crab. It was then that he un ...

done, and instead of one he made three weekly raffles. From very early in the morning he coul ...

pitiful efforts to appear gay, pleasant, talkative, but it was enough to see his sweat and paleness to know ...

who were weeping beside their phonographs. This number hasnt come up in four months, he told them, sh ...

His voice was becoming filled with wrong notes. It was getting out of tune, and it finally diminished into ...

through raffled pigs and goats that his daughter would get to Brussels, so he conceived the idea of organi ...

buy tickets at one hundred pesos apiece and they were sold out in less than a week. The night ...

Two months later Amaranta Úrsula went to Brussels. Aureliano Segundo gave her not only the money from t ...

that all that was lacking was the price of her fare back home. Fernanda was against the trip until ...

Furthermore, the parish priest arranged for her to travel under the care of a group of Franciscan n ...

they were packing one of Fernandas bridal trunks, the things were so well organized that the ...

that at no time was she to leave the company of the nuns or leave her cabin except to ...

keep her money in, and she would not have to take it off even to sleep. She tried to giv ...