A brave shadow finds a more colorful life in this joyous picture book by the acclaimed author of The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles and illustrator of Sidewalk Flowers. Smoot the shadow has been living a yawn-filled life for years. His boy never laughs and never leaps, so Smoot never does either . . . until the day he pops free, and decides to hit the road in search of the life he d...(展开全部)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n He Shook hands with me: "Well, there you are, on your own, appointed officially under my responsibility." He was actually walking with me to the door. What a distance off it seemed I moved like ...(展开全部)

约瑟夫•康拉德，波兰裔英国作家，早年间是一名海员，在二十多岁时仍无法流利地使用英语，然而，他以非母语使用者的身份，为英语文学注入了独特的敏锐情感，其代表作《黑暗的心》《吉姆爷》在英国文学史上有突出的地位，成为影响了老舍、海明威、博尔赫斯、卡尔维诺、马尔克斯、艾略特、伍尔夫、贝娄、奈保尔等大批名家的文体大师。

约瑟夫•康拉德，波兰裔英国作家，早年间是一名海员，在二十多岁时仍无法流利地使用英语，然而，他以非母语使用者的身份，为英语文学注入了独特的敏锐情感，其代表作《黑暗的心》《吉姆爷》在英国文学史上有突出的地位，成为影响了老舍、海明威、博尔赫斯、卡尔维诺、马尔克斯、艾略特、伍尔夫、贝娄、奈保尔等大批名家的文体大师。

约瑟夫•康拉德，波兰裔英国作家，早年间是一名海员，在二十多岁时仍无法流利地使用英语，然而，他以非母语使用者的身份，为英语文学注入了独特的敏锐情感，其代表作《黑暗的心》《吉姆爷》在英国文学史上有突出的地位，成为影响了老舍、海明威、博尔赫斯、卡尔维诺、马尔克斯、艾略特、伍尔夫、贝娄、奈保尔等大批名家的文体大师。

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n He Shook hands with me: "Well, there you are, on your own, appointed officially under my responsibility." He was actually walking with me to the door. What a distance off it seemed I moved like ...(展开全部)

约瑟夫•康拉德，波兰裔英国作家，早年间是一名海员，在二十多岁时仍无法流利地使用英语，然而，他以非母语使用者的身份，为英语文学注入了独特的敏锐情感，其代表作《黑暗的心》《吉姆爷》在英国文学史上有突出的地位，成为影响了老舍、海明威、博尔赫斯、卡尔维诺、马尔克斯、艾略特、伍尔夫、贝娄、奈保尔等大批名家的文体大师。

In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints wonderful canvases that are never displayed, an older brother who serves as both tormentor and protector, and a younger sist...(展开全部)

In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints wonderful canvases that are never displayed, an older brother who serves as both tormentor and protector, and a younger sist...(展开全部)

In this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists - the depiction and meanings of shadows. The representation of shadow, and especially of cast shadow, is as old as art itself, for according to classical writers art was born when the outline of a human shadow thro...(展开全部)