日期：2022-10-17 THE EVENTS that would deal Macon-do its fatal blow were just showing themselves when they brought Meme Buendas son home. The public situation was so uncertain then that no one had sufficient spirit to become involved with private scandals, so that F... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-10-17 Meme had finished her course of study. The diploma that certified her as a concert clavichordist was ratified by the virtuosity with which she executed popular melodies the seventeenth century at the gathering organized to celebrate the completion o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-10-17 IN THE BEWILDERMENT of her last years, rsula had had very little free time to attend to the papal education of Jos Arcadio, and the time came for him to get ready to leave for the seminary right away. Meme, his sister, dividing her time between Fern... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-10-17 Look at the mess weve got ourselves into, Colonel Aureli-ano Buenda said at that time, just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas. Aureli-ano Segun-do, on the other hand, could not contain his happiness over the avalanche foreigners. The h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-10-17 THE MARRIAGE was on the point of breaking up after two months because Aureli-ano Segun-do, in an attempt to placate Petra Cotes, had a picture taken of her dressed as the Queen of Madagascar. When Fernan-da found out about it she repacked her bridal... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-10-17 YEARS LATER on his deathbed Aureli-ano Segun-do would remember the rainy afternoon in June when he went into the bedroom to meet his first son. Even though the child was languid and weepy, with no mark of a Buenda, he did not have to think twice abo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-10-17 COLONEL GERINELDO MRQUEZ was the first to perceive the emptiness of the war. In his position as civil and military leader of Macondo he would have telegraphic conversations twice a week Colonel Aure-liano Buenda. At first those exchanges would deter... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-10-17 SITTNG IN THE WICKER ROCKING chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano, Jos , his chin covered with foam, stropping his razor to give himself his first shave. His blackheads bled and he cut his upper lip as he tried to s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-10-17 THE WAR was over in May. Two weeks before the government made the official announcement in a high-sounding proclamation, which promised merciless punishment for those who had started the rebellion, Colonel Aureliano Buenda fell prisoner just as he w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-10-17 COLONEL AURELIANO BUENDA organized thirty--two armed uprisings and he lost them all. He had seventeen male children by seventeen different women and they were exterminated one after the other on a single night before the oldest one had reached the a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-10-17 AURELIANO BUENDA and Remedios Moscote were married one Sunday in March before the altar Father Nicanor Reyna had set up in the parlor. It was the culmination of four weeks of shocks in the Moscote household because little Remedios had reached pubert... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-10-17 THE NEW HOUSE, white, like a dove, was inaugurated with a dance. rsula had got that idea from the afternoon when she saw Rebeca and Amaranta changed into adolescents, and it could almost have been said that the main reason behind the construction wa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-10-17 Emancipated for the moment at least from the torment of fantasy, Jos Arcadio Buenda in a short time set up a system of order and work which allowed for only one bit of license: the freeing of the birds, which, since the time of the founding, had mad... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-10-17 WHEN THE PIRATE Sir Francis Drake attacked Riohacha in the sixteenth century, rsula Iguarns great-great-grandmother became so frightened with the ringing of alarm bells and the firing of cannons that she lost control of her nerves and sat down on a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-10-17 MANY YEARS LATER as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buenda was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-15 The bloody victory of the Corleone Family was not complete until a year of delicate political maneuvering established Michael Corleone as the most powerful Family chief in the United States. For twelve months, Michael divided his time equally betwee... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-15 On that same day two limousines parked on the Long Beach mall. One of the big cars waited to take Connie Corleone, her mother, her husband and her two children to the airport. The Carlo Rizzi family was to take a vacation in Las Vegas in preparation... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-15 Albert Neri sat in his Bronx apartment and carefully brushed the blue serge of his old policemans uniform. He unpinned the badge and set it on the table to be polished. The regulation holster and gun were draped over a chair. This old routine of det... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-15 Michael Corleone had taken precautions against every eventuality. His planning was faultless, his security impeccable. He was patient, hoping to use the full year to prepare. But he was not to get his necessary year because fate itself took a stand... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-15 On the plane ride back to New York, Michael Corleone relaxed and tried to sleep. It was useless. The most terrible period of his life was approaching, perhaps even a fatal time. It could no longer be put off. Everything was in readiness, all precaut... 阅读全文>>