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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 2 The Sign of Four”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 Sign of Four

1. The Science of Deduction 11
2. The Statement of the case 30
3. In Quest of a Solution 42
4. The Story of the Bald-Headed Man 53
5. The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge 75
6. Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration 92
7. The Episode of the Barrel 111
8. The Baker Street Irregulars 136
9. A Break in the Chain 157
10. The End of the Islander 179
11. The Great Agra Treasure 199
12. The Strange Story of Jonathan Small 213

Synopsis of The Sign of Four 269

"... Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-colored houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? ..." p. 28

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination. p. 41

"... It was a bearded, hairy face with wild cruel eyes and an expression of concentrated malevolence. ..." p. 66



Synopsis of The Sign of Four

1. The Science of Deduction
Sherlock Holmes is engaged in the habit of narcotics, as he believes that it has stimulating and clarifying effects on the mind. Watson remonstrates Holmes for his addictive habit, and argues that it will be detrimental to his brain. Watson warns him that it might impart permanent damage to his mind as well as his constitution.
Holmes tells Watson that he yearns for mental exaltation other than artificial stimulants.
Holmes shows his detective skill to Watson by deducing where Watson has been in the morning, thereby differentiating between observation and deduction.
Intrigued by his science of deduction, Watson challenges him with a tougher problem. He hands over a watch to Holmes asking him about the characters or habits of the late owner. Holmes makes his deduction so correctly that Watson gets indignant, for he thinks that Holmes has deceived him over the matter of his unfortunate older brother. But Holmes explains his reasoning, and Watson has to acknowledge his marvelous faculty.
Holmes comments on such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world, and complains about his being unable to exert his ability.
As if in answer to his tirade, a young lady by the name of Mary Morstan comes to their residence looking for his help.


2. The Statement of the Case
On entering the room, Mary Morstan shows intense inward agitation.
Morstan relates her case.

Her father was in an Indian regiment, and he worked as the officer in charge of the convict-guard in the Andaman Islands.
In December 1878, he telegraphed her that he arrived in London all safe requesting her to come to the Langham Hotel to see him. When she came to the hotel, she was told that her father had gone out the night before and had not returned. She waited all day, but her father never came back. She tried to find her father, but to no avail ever since.
She communicated with the only friend of her father, Major Sholto, but he did not even know that his brother officer was in England.
Six years ago, she happened to see the advertisement in a paper inquiring her address. By the advice of her employer, Mrs. Cecil Forrester, she responded to the advertisement. From then on, she received a precious pearl each year from a mysterious benefactor.
Then this morning, she received a letter from an anonymous person, saying that she was a wronged woman, and asking her to meet him at 7 o’clock tonight at the Lyceum Theater.

Holmes proposes to Watson and Mary to come to the place to see this mysterious person. After she has gone with the promise to meet them at 6 o’clock, Watson admits to Holmes that she is a very attractive woman.
Holmes leaves the room for his investigation.
Watson realizes that his future is too black to have a fancy on Morstan. He determines to face the reality like a man.


3. In Quest of a Solution
Holmes returns from his investigation, and tells Watson that he found an obituary of Major Sholto in a paper. Holmes believes that there is a connection between his death and the pearls which Morstan received.
Morstan comes and shows a curious paper to Holmes which she has found in her father’s desk. A diagram of a large building is depicted on the paper, and besides it is written a phrase saying, “the sign of the four - Jonathan Small, Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Khan, Dost Akbar”.
When they arrive at the Lyceum Theatre, they are accosted by a coachman, who asks them their identity. The coachman guides them to a four-wheeler, and drives it at a furious pace through the foggy streets.
On their way to their unknown destination, Watson tries to amuse and relieve Morstan by telling her his adventure in Afghanistan.
They arrive at a house in an ominous neighborhood, and they are ushered into the house by a Hindoo servant.


4. The Story of the Bald-Headed Man
They meet a man named Thaddeus Sholto, who is the son of the late Major Sholto.
Sholto inadvertently gives away the death of Miss Morstan’s father, which makes Watson indignant for his callosity in such a delicate matter.
Sholto promises Morstan to do her justice, and tells her his arguments with his twin brother, Bartholomew, at Pondicherry Lodge over settling their affairs.
Sholto tells them about his father, Major Sholto, who retired from India with a fortune.

Major Sholto seemed to have a dangerous threat on him, and he was extremely afraid of men with wooden legs. On one occasion, he fired his revolver at a wooden-legged man, who later proved to be a harmless tradesman.
Early in 1882, Major Sholto received a letter from India, which was a great shock to him, and since then on he sickened to his death. On his deathbed, he confided to his sons that he had wronged to his friend Captain Morstan and his daughter Mary due to his greed over Agra treasure, which he and Morstan had in their possession in India.
When Captain Morstan came back to London from his military service, he and Sholto had a quarrel over the treasure, resulting in the accidental, tragic death of him.
Major Sholto left his last words to his sons to share the treasure with Captain Morstan’s daughter, Mary.
When he was about to say where he had hid the treasure, he was terrified by a stranger on the window looking inside with an expression of concentrated malevolence. Sholto brothers rushed to the window, but the stranger already had gone. When they returned to the bed, they found that their father had passed away.
The next morning, they discovered that their father’s room had been ransacked, and a paper was fixed on the chest of him, with the words “the sign of the four”.
Thaddeus Sholto persuaded his brother Bartholomew to let him find out Miss Morstan’s address, and he sent her pearls each year as his father wished.
Thaddeus Sholto communicated with Morstan yesterday, for Bartholomew had found the Agra treasure, and he thought that he and Morstan should ask Bartholomew her fair share of the treasure.

The value of the treasure is estimated to be so gigantic that it will make Morstan the richest heiress in England. Although it is to be congratulated for Morstan, Watson finds his heart as heavy as lead.





차례


The Sign of Four

1. The Science of Deduction 11
2. The Statement of the case 30
3. In Quest of a Solution 42
4. The Story of the Bald-Headed Man 53
5. The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge 75
6. Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration 92
7. The Episode of the Barrel 111
8. The Baker Street Irregulars 136
9. A Break in the Chain 157
10. The End of the Islander 179
11. The Great Agra Treasure 199
12. The Strange Story of Jonathan Small 213

Synopsis of The Sign of Four 269