<영어로 읽는 고전 _ 로버트 W. 챔버스의 엘사 페기>
로버트 윌리엄 챔버스(Robert William Chambers)의 작품으로 그는 19세기 말부터 20세기 초에 활동한 미국의 작가로, 소설가, 화가, 일러스트레이터로서 활동했다. 그의 작품 중에서 가장 잘 알려진 작품은 공포 소설 '킹 카르코스의 황홀한 이야기(The King in Yellow)'다. 이 작품은 공포와 미스터리 요소를 담은 소설 집으로, 후대의 작가들에게 큰 영향을 끼쳤다.

로버트 W. 챔버스는 공포와 판타지 장르에서 활동하며, 그의 작품은 공포와 미스터리 요소, 그리고 종종 초자연적인 요소를 다루는 특징이 있다. '킹 카르코스의 황홀한 이야기'는 후에 H.P. 러브크래프트(H.P. Lovecraft)와 같은 작가들에게 영감을 주었으며, 공포 문학의 발전에 기여한 작품 중 하나로 평가되고 있다.


The work of Robert William Chambers. He was an American writer, novelist, painter, and illustrator active from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. His best known work is the horror novel 'The King in Yellow'. This work is a collection of novels containing horror and mystery elements, and had a great influence on later writers.

Robert W. Chambers works in the horror and fantasy genres, and his work is characterized by elements of horror, mystery, and often the supernatural. 'The Enchanting Story of King Karkos' was later published by H.P. It inspired writers such as H.P. Lovecraft and is evaluated as one of the works that contributed to the development of horror literature.

Contents

CHAPTER I. The butler made an instinctive movement to detain him,
CHAPTER II. All the morning she had been busy in the Craig's backyard garden,
CHAPTER III. Ailsa and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Craig,
CHAPTER IV. It was almost mid-April;
CHAPTER V. “Burgess!"
CHAPTER VI. There was incipient demoralisation already in the offices of Craig & Son.
CHAPTER VII. To Berkley the times were surcharged with agreeable agitation.
CHAPTER VIII. Berkley, hollow-eyed, ghastly white,
CHAPTER IX. And now at last she knew what it was she feared.
CHAPTER X. Her hatred and horror of him gave her no peace.
CHAPTER XI. In a city where thousands and thousands of women
CHAPTER XII. In February the birds sang between flurries of snow;
CHAPTER XIII. Berkley's first letter to her was written during that week of lovely weather,
CHAPTER XIV. The tremendous exodus continued;
CHAPTER XV. Toward the end of June,
CHAPTER XVI. On every highway, across every wood trail,
CHAPTER XVII. The smoke and spiteful crackle of the pickets' fusilade
CHAPTER XVIII. It was still dark when he awoke with a violent start,
CHAPTER XIX. A car full of leaf tobacco had been brought in that day,
CHAPTER XX. They told her that Berkley had gone up the hill toward the firing line.
CHAPTER XXI. Early in October the Union Cavalry began their favourite pastime of "chasing" Stuart.