다섯 아이들 / Five Children and It (삽화 포함, 영문판)

E. 네스빗 지음

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'다섯 아이들 / Five Children and It'(삽화 포함, 영문판)은 E. 네스빗의 대표적인 어린이 문학 작품입니다. 다섯 형제 자매가 모래요정인 '잇(It)'을 만나면서 겪게 되는 흥미진진한 모험 이야기를 담고 있습니다. 이 책은 상상력과 모험심, 그리고 가족애를 그리며, 어린 시절의 호기심과 꿈을 환기시킵니다. 본 영문판에는 원작의 삽화가 포함되어 있어 당시의 분위기와 등장인물의 감정을 한층 더 생생하게 전달합니다. 영문판 읽기를 통해 독자는 언어적 감수성과 영어 독해력을 동시에 키울 수 있으며, 원문에 담긴 정서와 뉘앙스를 직접 경험할 수 있는 특별한 기회를 제공합니다.

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CHAPTER I. BEAUTIFUL AS THE DAY
CHAPTER II. GOLDEN GUINEAS
CHAPTER III. BEING WANTED
CHAPTER IV. WINGS
CHAPTER V. NO WINGS
CHAPTER VI. A CASTLE AND NO DINNER
CHAPTER VII. A SIEGE AND BED
CHAPTER VIII. BIGGER THAN THE BAKER’S BOY
CHAPTER IX. GROWN UP
CHAPTER X. SCALPS
CHAPTER XI (AND LAST). THE LAST WISH
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(참고) 분량: 약 29 만자

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The house was three miles from the station, but, before the dusty hired hack had rattled along for five minutes, the children began to put their heads out of the carriage window and say, "Aren’t we nearly there?" And every time they passed a house, which was not very often, they all said, "Oh, is this it?" But it never was, till they reached the very top of the hill, just past the chalk-quarry and before you come to the gravel-pit. And then there was a white house with a green garden and an orchard beyond, and mother said, "Here we are!"
"How white the house is," said Robert.
"And look at the roses," said Anthea.
"And the plums," said Jane.
"It is rather decent," Cyril admitted.
The Baby said, "Wanty go walky;" and the hack stopped with a last rattle and jolt.
Everyone got its legs kicked or its feet trodden on in the scramble to get out of the carriage that very minute, but no one seemed to mind. Mother, curiously enough, was in no hurry to get out; and even when she had come down slowly and by the step, and with no jump at all, she seemed to wish to see the boxes carried in, and even to pay the driver, instead of joining in that first glorious rush round the garden and orchard and the thorny, thistly, briery, brambly wilderness beyond the broken gate and the dry fountain at the side of the house. But the children were wiser, for once. It was not really a pretty house at all; it was quite ordinary, and mother thought it was rather inconvenient, and was quite annoyed at there being no shelves, to speak of, and hardly a cupboard in the place. Father used to say that the iron-work on the roof and coping was like an architect’s nightmare. But the house was deep in the country, with no other house in sight, and the children had been in London for two years, without so much as once going to the seaside even for a day by an excursion train, and so the White House seemed to them a sort of Fairy Palace set down in an Earthly Paradise. For London is like prison for children, especially if their relations are not rich.

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저자(글) E. 네스빗

E. 네스빗(Edith Nesbit, 1858-1924)은 영국의 유명한 아동문학 작가로, 현대 판타지 소설의 선구자로 불립니다. 현실적이면서도 상상력이 풍부한 이야기와 따뜻한 유머로 사랑을 받았으며, '철도 아이들', '마법의 성' 등 다양한 명작을 남겼습니다. 네스빗의 작품은 오랜 세월이 지나도 변함없이 가족과 어린이 독자들에게 감동을 주고 있습니다.