영어로 읽는 고전 _ 싱클레어 루이스의 신사의 낭만적 모험
싱클레어 루이스의 “우리의 렌 씨: 어느 점잖은 남자의 낭만적 모험”은 1914년에 출간된 소설이다. 소심한 잡화 완구 회사 직원이 뜻밖에 돌아가신 아버지로부터 한 재산을 물려받자, 그는 대담한 결심을 한다—따분한 직장을 그만두고 세계를 여행하기로 한 것이다. 루이스가 본명으로 발표한 이 첫 소설은 평범한 한 남자가 모험을 향해 내딛는 비범한 도약을 따라가며, 야망 없던 몽상가가 갑자기 자신의 삶을 바꿀 수단을 손에 쥐었을 때 벌어지는 일들을 그려낸다.
Classics Read in English _ Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Sinclair Lewis
Published in 1914, Sinclair Lewis's Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man tells the story of a timid clerk at a novelty-toy company who, upon unexpectedly inheriting a fortune from his late father, makes a bold decision: to quit his dull job and set off to see the world. The first novel Lewis published under his own name, it follows an ordinary man's extraordinary leap into adventure, chronicling what unfolds when an unambitious dreamer suddenly finds himself with the means to transform his life.
Among the contents
The ticket-taker of the Nickelorion Moving-Picture Show is a public personage, who stands out on Fourteenth Street, New York, wearing a gorgeous light-blue coat of numerous brass buttons. He nods to all the patrons, and his nod is the most cordial in town. Mr. Wrenn used to trot down to Fourteenth Street, passing ever so many other shows, just to get that cordial nod, because he had a lonely furnished room for evenings, and for daytime a tedious job that always made his head stuffy.
He stands out in the correspondence of the Souvenir and Art Novelty Company as “Our Mr. Wrenn,” who would be writing you directly and explaining everything most satisfactorily. At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always bending over bills and columns of figures at a desk behind the stock-room. He was a meek little bachlor—a person of inconspicuous blue ready-made suits, and a small unsuccessful mustache.
