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영어 학습과 이야기의 흥미를 더하다
영어 고전을 통한 영어 원서 읽기로의 접근

이 책은 일반 대중이 영어 원서에 더욱더 수월하게 접근하기 위한 책으로 기획되었으며, 동시 출판되는 “영어 원서로 읽는 셜록 3 The Hound of the Baskervilles”의 영문판이다. 영어 학습에 있어서 가장 효과적인 방법의 하나가 영어 원서 읽기임은 널리 알려진 사실이다. 기존의 번역서를 거치지 않고 직접 원서를 읽음으로써 가질 수 있는 원작의 느낌과 감흥 또한 원서를 통해서만이 얻을 수 있는 것이다.

그런데도 영어 원서는 일부의 사람들만이 접근할 수 있는 어려운 책으로 간주하여 왔다. 이렇듯 어렵게 인식되는 영어 원서를 독자에게 더 가까이 가져오려고 한다. 일반 대중 또는 영어를 공부하는 학습자가 영어 원서를 읽는 데에 있어 가장 큰 걸림돌 중의 하나는 모르는 단어 또는 구를 일일이 사전 등을 참조하여 읽어 나가야 함에 있다. 이 책은 이 책의 독자가 기본적인 문법 지식과 평이한 단어 등에 대한 지식을 숙지하고 있다는 가정에서 출발한다. 이 책의 머리말에서 밝힌 바와 같이 이 책엔 영문 고전의 원본 텍스트가 수록되어 있다. 문장 해석에 중요한 숙어, 구 동사, 어려운 단어와 구 등을 선택하고 강조하였으며, 이들 단어와 구 등을 각 페이지 왼쪽에 단락별로 정의하고 설명하였다. 각 단어의 발음기호를 기재하여, 어휘력을 높이는 데 도움이 되게 했으며, 스토리 흐름을 이해하기 위한 영문 시놉시스를 책 말미에 추가하였다. 또한 유튜브 https://bit.ly/2Lcav3m에서 본문의 오디오북을 들을 수 있다.

편집자의 관점에서 일반 대중에게 어려울 것으로 판단되는 단어와 구 위주로 정의하고 설명했으나, 독자가 보기에 여전히 어려운 단어 등이 있을 수 있다고 생각한다. 이 책을 읽다가 막히는 부분은 사전과 번역서를 참조해 보시길 권해 드린다. 이 점 독자의 이해와 양해를 구한다.

왜 코난 도일의 셜록 홈즈인가?

흔히 영어 원서는 쉬운 책에서 시작하는 것이 좋다고 한다. 맞는 말이지만, 언제까지나 쉬운 책에서만 머물 수 없는 것 또한 사실이다. 반대로 너무 어려운 책은 더더욱이나 바람직하지 않다.
본인에게 적당히 어렵고 흥미로운 책을 고르는 것이 좋다고 생각하며, 코난 도일의 셜록 홈즈 이야기는 좋은 출발점이라고 생각한다.
코난 도일의 문체는 평이하고 간결한 편이라고 생각하며, 그의 스토리텔링은 널리 알려진 바와 같이 탁월하다. 만연체 문장으로 쓰인 흥미 없는 내용의 책보다는 당연히 나은 선택지이다.
또한, 셜록 홈즈 이야기의 번역서는 시중에 많이 나와 있어서, 이야기 줄거리에 이미 익숙하신 분들도 많이 계시리라 생각한다. 배경 지식을 가진 상태에서 읽는 원서는 더 수월하게 읽히기 마련이다.

영어 원서는 어렵거나 거리낄 대상이 아니다

영어 원서를 처음 접하시는 분은 편집자가 맨 처음 영어 원서를 손에 들었을 때와 같은 막연한 거리낌을 아마 가지실 수 있을 것이다.
영어 원서는 물론 읽기 쉬운 책이 아니다. 그러나 동시에 마냥 어렵거나 거리낄 대상도 아니다.
한 문장 한 문장 차근차근 읽어 나가신다면, 어느 순간 원서의 매력과 향취를 만끽하실 수 있으리라 믿는다.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes 11
2 The Curse of the Baskervilles 26
3 The Problem 52
4 Sir Henry Baskerville 72
5 Three Broken Threads 99
6 Baskerville Hall 122
7 The Stapletons of Merripit House 144
8 First Report of Dr. Watson 174
9 Second Report of Dr. Watson 191
10 Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson 230
11 The Man on the Tor 252
12 Death on the Moor 280
13 Fixing the Nets 307
14 The Hound of the Baskervilles 333
15 A Retrospection 361

Synopsis of The Hound of the Baskervilles 385

To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted. p. 38

“Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!” p. 51

“Oh, he mentioned his name, did he? That was imprudent. What was the name that he mentioned?”
“His name,” said the cabman, “was Mr. Sherlock Holmes.” p. 117



Synopsis of The Hound of the Baskervilles

1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
One morning, Watson picks up the stick which a visitor had left behind him the night before. The stick is engraved with the name of its owner, James Mortimer, and other information that the visitor is a country practitioner.
Sherlock Holmes asks Watson what he makes of it. Watson makes his guess on the visitor, but Holmes contradicts his conjecture with his characteristic deductive mastery.
At this moment, Dr. Mortimer arrives at 221B, Baker Street. He is delighted to recover his stick in the room. In his small talk with them, Mortimer shows his keen interest in Holmes’s skull.
Mortimer has come to consult Holmes, for he is confronted with a most serious and extraordinary problem.


2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
Dr. Mortimer draws out an old manuscript of the early eighteenth century. It was committed to his care by Sir Charles Baskerville, whose sudden and tragic death three months ago created so much excitement in Devonshire.
The manuscript relates a legend which runs in the Baskerville family. Mortimer reads it to them, because it is intimately connected with the affair.

In the time of the Great Rebellion, Baskerville Manor was held by Hugo Baskerville, who was a wildest, profane, and godless man.
It chanced that Hugo came to have his eyes on the daughter of a yeoman.
One Michaelmas, Hugo and his wicked companions kidnapped her while her father and brothers were absent from home. They locked her in an upper chamber of the Hall, and got into a wild carousal. She got agitated over the singing, shouting, and terrible oaths that came up from below. In her desperation to escape the Hall, she climbed down the south wall with the aid of ivy on the wall, and fled toward her father’s farm.
Hugo discovered a little later that she had escaped the room. Infuriated by her escape, Hugo cried aloud before all the company that he would render his body and soul to the Power of Evil if he might but overtake her. He unkenneled the pack of hounds in pursuit of the girl, and chased her riding a mare.
After Hugo had gone, his companions were in turmoil. Then they took horses and followed Hugo moments later.
They met a shepherd upon the moorlands, and asked him whether he had seen the maiden. The shepherd had seen her and Hugo, and he also witnessed a hound of hell following Hugo, which made him so crazed with fear.
They rode in spite of their fear, and found Hugo and the girl lying lifeless in a valley. The girl had fallen out of fear and fatigue.
A huge black beast the shepherd described was attacking Hugo, which made them so scary that they shrieked with fear and ran away for their dear lives.
This tale of the diabolical hound has plagued the Baskerville family ever since.

Sherlock Holmes gives little interest to this folktale. Dr, Mortimer tells him the mysterious death of Charles Baskerville referring to a paper.

Sir Charles Baskerville who made a fortune in South African speculation settled in Baskerville Hall.
On the fourth of May, Sir Charles went out, as he had a habit of walking down the yew alley. At twelve o’clock, Barrymore, the butler, found the hall door still open, yet Charles did not return. He became alarmed, and traced the footmarks of Charles holding a lantern. Charles was found dead at the far end of the alley, with no signs of violence on him but a grotesque facial distortion. It was believed to be a natural death, as he had a weak heart.
But there were a few mystifying aspects of the affair. There were indications that Sir Charles had stood at a moor-gate for a reason. His footprints altered their character from the time that he passed the moor-gate, and he appeared to have been walking upon his toes.
Mortimer had met Sir Charles Baskerville frequently, and lately he noticed that Charles had taken the legend exceedingly to heart. Apparently, Char les seemed to believe in the hell hound and the Baskerville curse. Consequently, he was afraid of the haunted moor at night.
On one occasion, Mortimer met Sir Charles at his hall door. He witnessed Sir Charles looking behind his shoulder and having the most dreadful horror. Mortimer whisked round and has just time to catch a glimpse of a large black calf, which Sir Charles believed to be the devil dog of the legend.

Other than the contents on the paper, Dr. Mortimer gives them his private observations.
It is understood that the only relative of Sir Charles is Mr. Henry Baskerville, the son of Charles Baskerville’s younger brother.
They have a few acquaintances in neighborhood, Mr. Frankland, of Lafter Hall, and Mr. Stapleton, the naturalist.
The reason that Mortimer relates the legend to Holmes is that he thinks it has a relevance to the mysterious death of Sir Charles, because he has found the footprints of a gigantic hound at the place of the tragedy.