If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn't it be marvelous! Or would it? It could, after all, be messy. And you'd have no choice. What if you didn't like what fell? Or what if too much came? Have you ever thought of what it might be like to be squashed flat by a pancake?

If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn't it be marvelous! Or would it? It could, after all, be messy. And you'd have no choice. What if you didn't like what fell? Or what if too much came? Have you ever thought of what it might be like to be squashed flat by a pancake?

This 1946 adaptation of Stephen Leacock¹s timeless tale is set in Mariposa, a fictional town on the shore of magnificent Lake Wissanotti. This story depicts the comedy of day-to-day life in a bustling small town. This dramatization tells of the amazing foreordained attachment of Peter Pupkin, junior teller in the Exchange Bank in Mariposa, and Zena Pepperleigh, old Judge Pepper...(展开全部)

Twelve episodes in the everyday life of the community of Mariposa

Twelve episodes in the everyday life of the community of Mariposa

This 1946 adaptation of Stephen Leacock¹s timeless tale is set in Mariposa, a fictional town on the shore of magnificent Lake Wissanotti. This story depicts the comedy of day-to-day life in a bustling small town. This dramatization tells of the amazing foreordained attachment of Peter Pupkin, junior teller in the Exchange Bank in Mariposa, and Zena Pepperleigh, old Judge Pepper...(展开全部)

保罗•奥斯特（Paul Auster，1947— ），生于新泽西州的纽渥克市。在哥伦比亚大学念英文暨比较文学系，并获同校硕士学位。 奥斯特于1990年获美国文学与艺术学院颁发“莫顿•道文•萨伯奖”，1991年以《偶然的音乐》获国际笔会“福克纳文学奖”提名，1993年以《巨兽》获法国麦迪西文学大奖，2006年10月获颁阿斯图里亚斯王子文学奖。作品除了小说《月宫》、《纽约三部曲》、《幻影书》、《神谕之夜》、《密室中的旅行》等，还包括回忆录《孤独及其所创造的》、评论集《饥渴的艺术》及诗集《烟灭》。作品已被译成三十多种语言。 在文学创作之外，奥斯特也热衷于电影剧本写作并曾独立执导电影。目前与妻儿定居于纽约布鲁克林区。

简·奥默罗德（JanOrmerod） 澳大利亚图画书作家。1946年出生于班伯里。童年时就沉浸在艺术创作中，对美国漫画尤为喜爱。她从珀斯的一家艺术学院毕业后，曾在中学教艺术学等课程，深谙孩子的心理。简善于观察细节，其作品往往取材于日常生活，以细腻的情感赢得广大读者的赞赏和喜爱。多年来，简获得了多种奖项。仅其创作的第一本图画书《阳光》，就获得1981年英国凯特·格林纳威大奖提名、1982年英国鹅妈妈奖等诸多荣誉。代表作有《阳光》《月光》《水巫》等。

In this award-winning wordless picture book, young ones follow a little girl as she goes throughout her day. Charming illustrations show the first rays of morning light shining into the little girl’s bedroom, waking her up. She goes about her morning routine and watches as her parents do the same. She eats cereal, climbs in bed with mom and dad as they read the paper and drink ...(展开全部)

In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as his best selling Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and to r...(展开全部)