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Zane Grey의 "The Call of the Canyon"은 1924년에 출판된 소설로, 제1차 세계대전 이후의 미국을 배경으로 합니다. 이 작품은 전쟁에서 돌아온 참전 용사 Glenn Kilbourne의 이야기를 중심으로 전개됩니다. Glenn은 전쟁의 트라우마를 극복하고 건강을 회복하기 위해 애리조나의 옥 크릭 캐니언으로 떠납니다. 그곳에서 그는 자연의 치유력을 경험하고 새로운 삶의 의미를 발견합니다.

소설은 도시의 물질주의적 생활과 자연 속 순수한 삶의 대비를 통해 당시 미국 사회의 변화와 가치관의 충돌을 탐구합니다. Grey는 캐니언의 아름다움을 섬세하게 묘사하며, 이를 통해 자연의 중요성과 인간 정신의 회복에 대한 메시지를 전달합니다.

작품은 또한 Glenn과 그의 약혼녀 Carley 사이의 복잡한 관계, 그리고 서부의 삶에 적응하려는 Carley의 노력을 그리며, 사랑과 개인의 성장이라는 주제를 다룹니다. "The Call of the Canyon"은 Zane Grey의 전형적인 서부 소설의 요소들과 함께, 전후 미국 사회의 변화와 가치관의 재정립이라는 더 넓은 주제를 다루고 있어, 작가의 문학적 깊이를 보여주는 작품으로 평가받습니다.


Zane Grey's "The Call of the Canyon" is a novel published in 1924, set in the United States after World War I. The story centers around the story of Glenn Kilbourne, a veteran who returned from the war. Glenn travels to Oak Creek Canyon in Arizona to recover from the trauma of the war and recover his health. There, he experiences the healing power of nature and discovers a new meaning in life.

The novel explores the changes in American society and the clash of values at the time through the contrast between the materialistic life of the city and the pure life in nature. Grey delicately describes the beauty of the canyon, and through it delivers a message about the importance of nature and the restoration of the human spirit.

The novel also deals with themes of love and personal growth, depicting the complex relationship between Glenn and his fiancee Carley, and Carley's efforts to adapt to life in the West. "The Call of the Canyon" is considered a work that demonstrates the author's literary depth, as it deals with elements of Zane Grey's typical western novels, as well as the broader theme of the changes in American society and the redefinition of values after the war.

Summary
What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid the letter in her lap and gazed dreamily through the window.
It was a day typical of early April in New York, rather cold and gray, with steely sunlight. Spring breathed in the air, but the women passing along Fifty-seventh Street wore furs and wraps. She heard the distant clatter of an L train and then the hum of a motor car. A hurdy-gurdy jarred into the interval of quiet.
“Glenn has been gone over a year,” she mused, “three months over a year?and of all his strange letters this seems the strangest yet.”

Contents
CHAPTER I. It was a day typical of early April in New York
CHAPTER II. The first hundred yards of that steep road
CHAPTER III. Carley was awakened by rattling sounds
CHAPTER IV. Two warm sunny days in early May inclined
CHAPTER V. There could be a relation to familiar things
CHAPTER VI. If spring came at all to Oak Creek Canyon
CHAPTER VII. The day came when Carley asked Mrs. Hutter
CHAPTER VIII. At Flagstaff, where Carley arrived a few minutes
CHAPTER IX. The latter part of September Carley returned
CHAPTER X. Carley’s edifice of hopes, dreams
CHAPTER XI. Carley burst in upon her aunt
CHAPTER XII. Vague sense of movement