One Hundred Years of Solitude

and a thin silk ribbon tied in a bow in place of a necktie. He was ruddy and languid with a startled ...

pale, with green veins and fingers that were like parasites, and he wore a solid gold ring with ...

order to find him in the shadows, in some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of abs ...

Arcadio did not ask him any questions. He kissed the corpse on the forehead and withdrew from under her sk ...

inside, which was perfumed with sandalwood, the long letter in which Fernanda unburdened her heart ...

Youre the bastard. Im Aureliano Buendía. Go to your room, José Arcadio said. Aureliano we ...

by his anxious breathing, and he continued hearing his steps in the ruined bedrooms after midnight. He did not hear ...

bookstore in search of the books he needed. Nothing he saw along the way interested him, perhaps because ...

necessary, so without pausing he went along the eleven blocks that separated the house from the narrow ...

in the corners sticky with cobwebs, and even in the spaces that were supposed to serve as p ...

his blue eyes, lively and close-set, revealed the gentleness of a man who had read all of the books. He wa ...

would be. Without saying a word he handed them, along with the little gold fish, to the wise Cat ...

read these books must have been Isaac the Blindman, so consider well what youre doing. José Arca ...

fibrous and rough coating. He restricted his vest-pocket empire of worn, exotic clothing, false perfumes, ...

shabby robe with golden dragons on it and a pair of slippers with yellow tassels, and there he wo ...

floating on his back, lulled by the coolness and by the memory of Amaranta. A few days after arrivin ...

his initials embroidered over the heart. Twice a week he would wash the complete change in the tub and w ...

Amaranta. She and the frightful look of the saints in the glow of the nocturnal lamp were the t ...

exile. Unlike Aureliano José who tried to drown that image in the bloody bog of war, he tried to keep ...

reached Rome, continued nourishing the legend of theology and canon law so as not to jeopardize the fabulous i ...