One Hundred Years of Solitude

charity was a way of humiliating the person who had humiliated her. Nevertheless, the rancor disappear ...

Fernanda could have something to eat, and she continued fulfilling the pledge to herself until she ...

heard from that stealthy, impenetrable woman who had sown in the family the angelic seed of Remedios t ...

out of her womb, not knowing herself that she was his great-grandmother. Only in a house like that was ...

snake crawling over her stomach. She knew that if she had told Úrsula, the latter would have ...

she had never seen, was the only one who remembered her. She saw to it that she had a good pair ...

husbands mother it was so incredible that it took her longer to discover it than to forget it. ...

especially during the time of the banana company, was more like a barracks than a home. But when Ú ...

spot in the courtyard, the weeds broke through the cement of the porch, breaking it like glass, and ...

return at night. One morning she saw that the red ants had left the undermined foundations, crossed the ...

by, tenacious and invincible. Fernanda, writing letters to her children, was not aware of the unchecked ...

also dusty and filled with cobwebs even though she swept and dusted three times a day, and that in ...

of cotton stockings that Amaranta Úrsula had given her, and she made a bundle out of the tw ...

destination. She tried to be more precise, however, saying that she was going to spend her last ...

because she was determined to leave with only what she had: one peso and twenty-five cents. From ...

When she heard about the flight, Fernanda ranted for a whole day as she checked trunks, dres ...

her breakfast ready when she arose and she would leave her room again only to get the meal that ...

solitude, but both continued living on their own, cleaning their respective rooms while the cobwebs fell ...

time looking for the shears that she was sure she had put on the bed and after turning everything ups ...

sat down to write. The inkwell that she had placed at her right would be on the left, the blotter would be lo ...