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>>

日期：2022-09-15 Michael Corleone arrived late in the evening and, by his own order, was not met at the airport. Only two men accompanied him: Tom Hagen and a new bodyguard, named Albert Neri. The most lavish suite of rooms in the hotel had been set aside for Michae... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-15 The garish suite overlooked the fake fairyland grounds in the rear of the hotel; transplanted palm trees lit up by climbers of orange lights, two huge swimming pools shimmering dark blue by the light of the desert stars. On the horizon were the sand... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-15 When Kay Adams received her college degree, she took a job teaching grade school in her New Hampshire hometown. The first six months after Michael vanished she made weekly telephone calls to his mother asking about him. Mrs. Corleone was always frie... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 The Sicilian sun, early-morning lemon-colored, filled Michaels bedroom. He awoke and, feeling Apollonias satiny body against his own sleep-warm skin, made her come awake with love. When they were done, even all the months of complete possession coul... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 After five months of exile in Sicily, Michael Corleone came finally to understand his fathers character and his destiny. He came to understand men like Luca Brasi, the ruthless caporegime Clemenza, his mothers resignation and acceptance of her role.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 Lucy Mancini, a year after Sonnys death, still missed him terribly, grieved for him more fiercely than any lover in any romance. And her dreams were not the insipid dreams of a schoolgirl, her longings not the longings of a devoted wife. She was not... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 But it was to be nearly another year before Don Corleone could arrange for his son Michael to be smuggled back into the United States. During that time the whole Family racked their brains for suitable schemes. Even Carlo Rizzi was listened to now t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 The death of Santino Corleone sent shock waves through the underworld of the nation. And when it became known that Don Corleone had risen from his sick bed to take charge of the Family affairs, when spies at the funeral reported that the Don seemed... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 Perhaps it was the stalemate that made Sonny Corleone embark on the bloody course of attrition that ended in his own death. Perhaps it was his dark violent nature given full rein. In any case, that spring and summer he mounts senseless raids on enem... 阅读全文>>