어린이를 위한 톨스토이 / Tolstoi For The Young (영문판, 삽화 포함)

레프 톨스토이 지음

아이보리잉크 2025년 04월 21일 출간

작품소개

책소개

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러시아의 위대한 문호 레프 톨스토이가 젊은 독자들을 위해 쓴 감동적인 단편들을 모은 작품집이다. 이 책에는 Ivan the Fool, A Prisoner, Emelian and the Empty Drum, The Great Bear, Three Questions, The Godson 등의 이야기들이 수록되어 있으며, 각각의 이야기는 단순한 구조 속에서도 깊은 도덕적 교훈과 삶에 대한 통찰을 담고 있다. 인간의 선함, 겸손, 지혜, 용기와 같은 가치를 아이부터 어른까지 누구나 쉽게 공감할 수 있도록 풀어낸 이 작품집은, 톨스토이 문학의 진수를 젊은 세대에게 전하는 귀중한 다리 역할을 한다.

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표지
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IVAN THE FOOL
A PRISONER
EMELIAN AND THE EMPTY DRUM
THE GREAT BEAR
THREE QUESTIONS
THE GODSON
브랜드 소개
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(참고) 분량: 약 25만자

책 속으로

An officer by the name of Jilin served in the army in the Caucasus.
One day he received a letter from home. It was from his mother, who wrote, "I am getting old now, and I want to see my beloved son before I die. Come and say good-bye to me, and when you have buried me, with God’s grace, you can return to the Army. I have found a nice girl for you to marry; she is clever and pretty, and has some property of her own. If you like her perhaps you will marry and settle down for good."
Jilin pondered over the letter. It was true; his mother was really failing fast, and it might be his only chance of seeing her alive. He would go home, and if the girl was nice, he might even marry.
He went to his colonel and asked for leave, and bidding good-bye to his fellow-officers, gave his men four bucketfuls of vodka as a farewell treat, and got ready to go.
There was a war in the Caucasus at the time. The roads were not safe by day or by night. If a Russian ventured away from his fort, the Tartars either killed him or took him off to the hills. So it had been arranged that a body of soldiers should march from fortress to fortress to convoy any person who wanted to travel. The soldiers marched in front and behind; the travellers in between them.
It was summer. At daybreak the baggage-train was loaded behind the fort; the convoy came out and started along the road. Jilin was on horseback; his things were on a cart with the baggage-train.
They had about twenty miles to go. The baggage-train moved along slowly; now the soldiers would stop, now a wheel came off a cart, now a horse would refuse to go on, and then everybody had to wait.
It was already past noon and they had not covered half the distance. It was hot, dusty, the sun scorching and no shade at all—bare steppe, with not a tree or a bush the whole way.
Jilin rode on ahead and stopped to wait until the baggage-train should catch him up. He heard the signal-horn sounded; the company had stopped again. Jilin thought, "Why shouldn’t I go on alone without the soldiers? I have a good horse, and if I come across any Tartars I can easily gallop away. I wonder if it would be safe?"
As he stood there thinking it over, another officer, by the name of Kostilin, rode up with a rifle and said, "Let us go on alone, Jilin. I’m dreadfully hungry, and the heat’s unbearable. My shirt is wringing wet."

작가정보

저자(글) 레프 톨스토이

레프 니콜라예비치 톨스토이(Лев Николаевич Толстой, 1828년 9월 9일~1910년 11월 20일)는 러시아를 대표하는 소설가이자 사상가이다. 그는 다양한 소설을 통해 인간 본성과 도덕적 갈등을 심도 있게 탐구했다. 톨스토이는 농민 교육과 금욕주의를 실천하며, 종교와 도덕에 대한 독자적인 철학을 발전시켰다. 그의 사상은 비폭력 저항 운동에도 영향을 미쳤으며, 마하트마 간디와 같은 인물에게 깊은 영감을 주었다.