<영어로 읽는 고전 _ R.M. 발렌타인의 무어인 이야기>
1888년에 출간된 R.M.발렌타인의 소설
R.M. Ballantyne(1825-1894)은 스코틀랜드의 예술가이자 대부분 어린이 소설의 다작 작가였다. Edinburgh에서 태어난 Ballantyne은 열 자녀 중 아홉 번째였다. 16세에 Ballantyne은 캐나다로 이주하여 Hudson's Bay Company에서 일하면서 모피 무역을 위해 전국을 여행했다. 1847년 아버지가 세상을 떠나 스코틀랜드로 돌아온 그는 평생 동안 100권이 넘는 어린이 모험 책을 쓰면서 본격적으로 문학 활동을 시작했다. 'The Coral Island' 및 'The Young Fur Traders'와 같은 이야기는 큰 인기를 얻었으며 많은 이야기가 캐나다 전역을 여행한 자신의 경험을 바탕으로 했다.
그의 대표작으로는 "The Coral Island"(《산호섬》)과 "The Gorilla Hunters"(《고릴라 사냥꾼》) 등이 있으며, 이들 작품은 당시 영국에서 매우 인기가 있었습니다. 또한, 그는 자연과학에 관심을 가지고 있어 책에도 관련 내용을 많이 썼다.


A novel by R.M. Valentine published in 1888
R.M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish artist and prolific author of mostly children's fiction. Born in Edinburgh, Ballantyne was the ninth of ten children. At the age of 16, Ballantyne moved to Canada, where he worked for the Hudson's Bay Company, where he traveled the country in the fur trade. After his father died in 1847, he returned to Scotland and began his literary career in earnest, writing over 100 children's adventure books during his lifetime. His stories, such as 'The Coral Island' and 'The Young Fur Traders', were hugely popular and many of them were based on his own experiences traveling across Canada.
His representative works include "The Coral Island" and "The Gorilla Hunters", which were very popular in England at the time. In addition, he was interested in natural science and wrote a lot of related contents in books.


요약
금세기 초 어느 아름다운 여름 밤, 젊은 해군 장교가 니스에 있는 한 호텔의 공용 응접실에 들어와 마치 누군가를 찾는 듯 두리번거렸다. 많은 사람들이 그곳에 모였다. 일부는 건장하고 다른 일부는 연약하고 건강했으며 많은 사람들이 자신이 어느 계급에 속하는지 의심스러운 상태에 있었지만 모두 그런 장소에서 설정하기 쉬운 조용한 대화의 윙윙 거리는 소리에 몰두하는데….

Summary
On one beautiful summer night at the beginning of this century, a young naval officer entered the public parlor of a hotel in Nice and looked around as if he were looking for someone. Many people gathered there. Some were stalwart, others frail and healthy, many in a state of doubt as to which class they belonged to, but all immersed in the buzz of quiet conversation, which is easy to set up in such a place… .

CONTENTS

Chapter I. An Algerine Story.
Chapter II. Among Pirates?Enslaved.
Chapter III. The Bagnio?Our Hero sees something of Misery, and is sold as a Slave.
Chapter IV. Our Middy is put to Work?Also put on his “word-of-Honour,” and receives a Great Shock of Surprise.
Chapter V. The Maiden’s Story?Peter the Great and the Middy go for a Holiday and see Awful Things.
Chapter VI. Our Hero sees the Moors in Several Aspects, and makes a Great Discovery.
Chapter VII. The Middy obtains a Decided Advance, and Makes Peter the Great his Confidant.
Chapter VIII. A Severe Trial?Secret Communication under Difficulties, and Sudden Flight.
Chapter IX. Hester introduced to a New Home and New Friends under Peculiar Circumstances, and a New Name.
Chapter X. Torture is Applied in Vain, and True Love is not to be Deceived.
Chapter XI. Dangers, Vicissitudes, Escapes, New Surroundings, Hopes, And Fears.
Chapter XII. The Middy, becoming Defiant and Violent, comes to Grief, and Hester’s Black Friends devise Strange Things.
Chapter XIII. Hester and her Father severely Tested.
Chapter XIV. A Brave Dash for Life and Freedom.
Chapter XV. A Strange Visit, a Strange Commission, and a Strange Display of Temper.
Chapter XVI. Mysterious and Daring Deeds are Crowned with Success.
Chapter XVII. The Last.