아일랜드 동화집 / Irish Fairy Tales (삽화 포함, 영문판)

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'아일랜드 동화집 (Irish Fairy Tales)'는 아일랜드의 전통적인 민담과 신화들을 총망라한 걸작 동화집입니다. 제임스 스티븐스는 켈트 민족 특유의 환상적이고 재기발랄한 이야기를 생동감 있게 풀어내며, 신비로운 요정과 용감한 영웅, 기상천외한 모험담을 흥미진진하게 그려냅니다. 이 책에는 원작의 감성과 매력을 그대로 담은 아름다운 삽화가 함께 수록되어 독자의 상상력을 한층 더 자극합니다. 영문판으로 읽으며 원어의 어휘, 문장 구조, 문화적 뉘앙스를 직접 체험할 수 있어 영어 실력을 자연스럽게 향상시키는 데에도 큰 장점이 있습니다.

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Finnian, the Abbott of Moville, went southwards and eastwards in great haste. News had come to him in Donegal that there were yet people in his own province who believed in gods that he did not approve of, and the gods that we do not approve of are treated scurvily, even by saintly men.
He was told of a powerful gentleman who observed neither Saint’s day nor Sunday.
"A powerful person!" said Finnian.
"All that," was the reply.
"We shall try this person’s power," said Finnian.
"He is reputed to be a wise and hardy man," said his informant.
"We shall test his wisdom and his hardihood."
"He is," that gossip whispered—"he is a magician."
"I will magician him," cried Finnian angrily. "Where does that man live?"
He was informed, and he proceeded to that direction without delay.
In no great time he came to the stronghold of the gentleman who followed ancient ways, and he demanded admittance in order that he might preach and prove the new God, and exorcise and terrify and banish even the memory of the old one; for to a god grown old Time is as ruthless as to a beggarman grown old.
But the Ulster gentleman refused Finnian admittance. He barricaded his house, he shuttered his windows, and in a gloom of indignation and protest he continued the practices of ten thousand years, and would not hearken to Finnian calling at the window or to Time knocking at his door.
But of those adversaries it was the first he redoubted.
Finnian loomed on him as a portent and a terror; but he had no fear of Time. Indeed he was the foster-brother of Time, and so disdainful of the bitter god that he did not even disdain him; he leaped over the scythe, he dodged under it, and the sole occasions on which Time laughs is when he chances on Tuan, the son of Cairill, the son of Muredac Red-neck.

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저자(글) 제임스 스티븐스

제임스 스티븐스(James Stephens, 1880~1950)는 아일랜드의 대표적인 소설가이자 시인, 민속학자입니다. 그는 켈트 신화와 아일랜드의 민속 전통을 대중적으로 알리는 데 크게 기여했으며, 특유의 유머와 상상력, 세밀한 묘사가 돋보입니다. '아일랜드의 목소리'라 불릴 만큼 민중의 삶과 문화, 구전되는 이야기를 문학적으로 승화시킨 작가로 평가받고 있습니다.