영어로 읽는 고전 _ 스티븐 크레인의 오러디의 로맨스
Stephen Crane과 Robert Barr의 "오러디의 로맨스"는 20세기 초에 쓰여진 소설입니다. 이 책은 아일랜드 출신의 젊은 남성 톰 오러디가 아버지의 오랜 전우인 웨스트포트 백작에게 중요한 서류를 전달하기 위해 떠나는 여정을 따라갑니다. 여정 중에 오러디는 우정, 결투, 그리고 예상치 못한 모험들을 경험하면서, 그의 아일랜드 배경과 그가 들어서는 영국 사회 사이의 대조를 드러냅니다.
이야기의 시작에서, 오러디는 한때 아일랜드에서 유명했지만 지금은 잊혀진 그의 가문의 유산에 대해 이야기합니다. 아버지의 죽음 이후, 오러디는 고인이 된 아버지의 마지막 부탁을 이행하기 위해 백작에게 일부 서류를 돌려주러 떠납니다. 그의 유머러스한 만남은 브리스톨에서 시작되는데, 그는 현지 여관에서 파문을 일으키며, 대령의 그의 아버지에 대한 불명예스러운 발언에 도전하고 의도치 않게 결투의 무대를 마련합니다. 이러한 초기 불운한 모험들은 오러디가 영국 상류층의 낯선 영역을 항해하면서 보여주는 그의 불같은 정신과 매력을 강조하며, 앞으로 일어날 격동적인 사건들을 예고합니다.
Classics Read in English _ The O Ruddy _ A Romance by Stephen Crane and Robert Barr
"The O'Ruddy: A Romance" by Stephen Crane and Robert Barr is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book follows Tom O'Ruddy, a young man from Ireland who embarks on a journey to deliver important papers to the Earl of Westport, his father's old comrade. Along the way, O'Ruddy encounters friendship, duels, and unexpected adventures, revealing the contrasts between his Irish background and the English society he enters.
At the start of the story, O'Ruddy recounts the legacy of his family, which was once prominent in Ireland but has fallen into obscurity. After the death of his father, O'Ruddy sets off to fulfill his late father's last request to return some papers to the Earl. His humorous encounters begin in Bristol, where he makes a splash at a local inn, challenging a Colonel's dishonorable remarks about his father and inadvertently setting the stage for a duel. These initial misadventures highlight O'Ruddy's fiery spirit and charm as he navigates the unfamiliar terrain of English gentry, foreshadowing the tumultuous events that will follow.
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My chieftain ancestors had lived at Glandore for many centuries and were very well known. Hardly a ship could pass the Old Head of Kinsale without some boats putting off to exchange the time of day with her, and our family name was on men's tongues in half the seaports of Europe, I dare say. My ancestors lived in castles which were like churches stuck on end, and they drank the best of everything amid the joyous cries of a devoted peasantry. But the good time passed away soon enough, and when I had reached the age of eighteen we had nobody on the land but a few fisher-folk and small farmers, people who were almost law-abiding, and my father came to die more from disappointment than from any other cause. Before the end he sent for me to come to his bedside.
"Tom," he said, "I brought you into existence, and God help you safe out of it; for you are not the kind of man ever to turn your hand to work, and there is only enough money to last a gentleman five more years.
"The 'Martha Bixby,' she was, out of Bristol for the West Indies, and if it hadn't been for her we would never have got along this far with plenty to eat and drink.
