One Hundred Years of Solitude

lower the window of the second-class coach to hear Fernandas last piece of advice. She was wear ...

had had at her age and the way in which she said good- bye, without crying but without smiling ...

motionless under the scorching sun, looking at the train as it merged with the black strip of the h ...

without realizing it, he said: Always remember that they were more than three thousand and th ...

away. One week previously he had returned home, without any voice, unable to breathe, and almost skin ...

coffin. So when she heard that he had died, she dressed in black, wrapped the shoes up in a newspa ...

that a concubine does not deserve, Fernanda replied. So wait until another one of your men dies and ...

and then it could be seen that once more in death they had become as Identical as they had been ...

drunkards who carried them out of the house got the coffins mixed up and buried them in the wrong ...

Chapter 18 AURELIANO DID NOT leave Melquíades room for a long time. He learned by heart the fantastic leg ...

philosophers stone, the Centuries of Nostradamus and his research concerning the plague, so that he reache ...

noon a plate of rice and slices of fried plantain, which were the only things eaten in the house si ...

None of the latters children had looked so much like him, not even Aureliano José, particularly in ...

Melquíades. One burning noon, a short time after the death of the twins, against the light of the w ...

in which they had been written he did not hesitate to answer. Sanskrit, he said. Melquíades reve ...

parchments became one hundred years old, when they could be deciphered. It was he who indicated to A ...

For the first time in her long life Santa Sofía de la Piedad let a feeling show through, and it was ...

money by selling one of the seventeen little gold fishes left in the workshop, the whereabouts of which, ...

the radiant light of noon. The last time that Aureliano sensed him he was only an invisible pres ...

after the death of Aureliano Segundo, one of the friends who had brought the wreath with the irreveren ...