톰 존스의 이야기 / History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (영문판)

헨리 필딩 지음

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* 이 도서는 영어만으로 구성되어 있습니다.
'History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (영문판)'은 헨리 필딩의 대표작으로, 18세기 영국 소설의 정수를 보여주는 작품입니다. 유쾌하고도 풍자적인 필치로 주인공 톰 존스의 모험과 성장을 그려내며, 당시 사회와 인간 군상을 생생하게 묘사합니다. 영문판으로 이 소설을 읽으면 원문 특유의 유머와 어휘, 시대적 언어 감각을 직접 체험할 수 있어 영어 독해력과 문화적 이해를 동시에 높일 수 있습니다. 고전 영문학 읽기에 도전하고 싶은 독자에게 추천합니다.

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An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money. In the former case, it is well known that the entertainer provides what fare he pleases; and though this should be very indifferent, and utterly disagreeable to the taste of his company, they must not find any fault; nay, on the contrary, good breeding forces them outwardly to approve and to commend whatever is set before them. Now the contrary of this happens to the master of an ordinary. Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates, however nice and whimsical these may prove; and if everything is not agreeable to their taste, will challenge a right to censure, to abuse, and to d—n their dinner without controul.
To prevent, therefore, giving offence to their customers by any such disappointment, it hath been usual with the honest and well-meaning host to provide a bill of fare which all persons may peruse at their first entrance into the house; and having thence acquainted themselves with the entertainment which they may expect, may either stay and regale with what is provided for them, or may depart to some other ordinary better accommodated to their taste.
As we do not disdain to borrow wit or wisdom from any man who is capable of lending us either, we have condescended to take a hint from these honest victuallers, and shall prefix not only a general bill of fare to our whole entertainment, but shall likewise give the reader particular bills to every course which is to be served up in this and the ensuing volumes.
The provision, then, which we have here made is no other than Human Nature. Nor do I fear that my sensible reader, though most luxurious in his taste, will start, cavil, or be offended, because I have named but one article. The tortoise—as the alderman of Bristol, well learned in eating, knows by much experience—besides the delicious calipash and calipee, contains many different kinds of food; nor can the learned reader be ignorant, that in human nature, though here collected under one general name, is such prodigious variety, that a cook will have sooner gone through all the several species of animal and vegetable food in the world, than an author will be able to exhaust so extensive a subject.
An objection may perhaps be apprehended from the more delicate, that this dish is too common and vulgar; for what else is the subject of all the romances, novels, plays, and poems, with which the stalls abound? Many exquisite viands might be rejected by the epicure, if it was a sufficient cause for his contemning of them as common and vulgar, that something was to be found in the most paltry alleys under the same name. In reality, true nature is as difficult to be met with in authors, as the Bayonne ham, or Bologna sausage, is to be found in the shops.
But the whole, to continue the same metaphor, consists in the cookery of the author; for, as Mr Pope tells us—
"True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest."
The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part, and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town. Where, then, lies the difference between the food of the nobleman and the porter, if both are at dinner on the same ox or calf, but in the seasoning, the dressing, the garnishing, and the setting forth? Hence the one provokes and incites the most languid appetite, and the other turns and palls that which is the sharpest and keenest.

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저자(글) 헨리 필딩

헨리 필딩(Henry Fielding, 1707-1754)은 영국의 소설가, 극작가, 언론인으로, 사회 풍자와 인간 심리 묘사에 뛰어난 글로 잘 알려져 있습니다. 그는 영국 근대 소설의 발전에 큰 영향을 끼쳤으며, '톰 존스'를 비롯해 '조지프 앤드류스' 등 여러 작품을 남겼습니다. 법률가이자 치안판사로 활동했던 경험을 바탕으로, 사회 현실을 반영하는 작품 세계를 펼쳤습니다.