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Zane Grey의 "Wildfire"는 1917년에 출판된 서부 소설입니다. 이 작품은 야생마와 그를 길들이려는 인간의 이야기를 중심으로 전개됩니다.

소설의 주인공은 Lin Slone이라는 젊은 말 조련사입니다. Lin은 'Wildfire'라고 불리는 아름답고 자유로운 야생 붉은 종마를 포획하고 길들이는 것을 꿈꿉니다. 이 과정에서 그는 Lucy Bostil이라는 여성을 만나 로맨스가 시작됩니다. Lucy 역시 말에 대한 열정을 가진 인물로, 그녀의 아버지는 지역의 유명한 말 목장주입니다.
Grey는 이 작품을 통해 자유와 길들임, 인간과 자연의 관계, 그리고 열정과 집착의 테마를 탐구합니다. Wildfire라는 말은 단순한 동물이 아닌, 자유와 야성의 상징으로 그려집니다.
소설은 경마와 말 조련에 대한 상세한 묘사를 포함하고 있어, Grey의 이 분야에 대한 깊은 지식과 관심을 엿볼 수 있습니다. 동시에 유타의 광활한 사막과 협곡 등 서부의 장대한 풍경이 생생하게 묘사되어, 이야기에 깊이와 분위기를 더합니다.
"Wildfire"는 모험, 로맨스, 그리고 인간과 자연의 교감이라는 Zane Grey 특유의 요소들을 잘 담아내고 있습니다. 특히 말에 대한 깊은 애정과 이해가 작품 전반에 녹아있어, 말을 좋아하는 독자들에게 큰 호응을 얻었습니다.
이 소설은 또한 서부의 변화하는 모습을 보여줍니다. 야생마를 길들이고 경주마로 만드는 과정은 서부의 미개척지가 점차 문명화되어가는 과정을 상징적으로 나타내기도 합니다.

"Wildfire"는 Zane Grey의 대표작 중 하나로, 그의 뛰어난 스토리텔링 능력과 서부에 대한 깊은 애정, 그리고 자연과 동물에 대한 섬세한 이해가 잘 드러나는 작품으로 평가받고 있습니다. 이 소설은 서부 문학의 고전으로 자리잡아, 오랫동안 많은 독자들의 사랑을 받아왔습니다.


Zane Grey's "Wildfire" is a western novel published in 1917. The story centers around a wild horse and a man trying to tame it.

The main character of the novel is a young horse trainer named Lin Slone. Lin dreams of capturing and taming a beautiful and free wild red stallion named 'Wildfire'. During this process, he meets a woman named Lucy Bostil and they begin a romance. Lucy also has a passion for horses, and her father is a famous horse rancher in the area.
Through this work, Grey explores themes of freedom and taming, the relationship between humans and nature, and passion and obsession. The horse Wildfire is portrayed not just as an animal, but as a symbol of freedom and wildness.
The novel includes detailed descriptions of horse racing and horse training, giving us a glimpse into Grey's deep knowledge and interest in these fields. At the same time, the vast deserts and canyons of Utah and other magnificent Western landscapes are vividly depicted, adding depth and atmosphere to the story.
"Wildfire" captures Zane Grey's signature elements of adventure, romance, and the connection between humans and nature. In particular, his deep love and understanding of horses are embedded throughout the work, which has been very popular with horse-loving readers.
The novel also shows the changing face of the West. The process of taming wild horses and turning them into racehorses symbolically represents the process in which the West's unexplored lands gradually become civilized.

"Wildfire" is one of Zane Grey's representative works, and is considered a work that well demonstrates his outstanding storytelling ability, deep love for the West, and delicate understanding of nature and animals. This novel has become a classic of Western literature and has been loved by many readers for a long time.

Summary
For some reason the desert scene before Lucy Bostil awoke varying emotions?a sweet gratitude for the fullness of her life there at the Ford, yet a haunting remorse that she could not be wholly content?a vague loneliness of soul?a thrill and a fear for the strangely calling future, glorious, unknown.
She longed for something to happen. It might be terrible, so long as it was wonderful. This day, when Lucy had stolen away on a forbidden horse, she was eighteen years old. The thought of her mother, who had died long ago on their way into this wilderness, was the one drop of sadness in her joy. Lucy loved everybody at Bostil's Ford and everybody loved her. She loved all the horses except her father's favorite racer, that perverse devil of a horse, the great Sage King.

Contents
CHAPTER I. For some reason the desert scene
CHAPTER II. Bostil went toward the house with his daughter
CHAPTER III. The days did not pass swiftly at Bostil's Ford
CHAPTER IV. Three wild-horse hunters made camp one night beside
CHAPTER V. In the early morning when all was gray and the big
CHAPTER VI. That was the last Slone saw of Wildfire for three days
CHAPTER VII. Slone looked grimly glad when simultaneously
CHAPTER VIII. Lucy Bostil had called twice to her father
CHAPTER IX. Lucy Bostil could not control the glow of strange excitement
CHAPTER X. Two weeks slipped by on the wings of time
CHAPTER XI. All through May there was an idea
CHAPTER XII. Bostil slept that night, but his sleep was troubled
CHAPTER XIII. Wildfire ran on down the valley far beyond the yelling
CHAPTER XIV. Slone lay wide awake under an open window
CHAPTER XV. Slone's heart leaped to his throat
CHAPTER XVI. No moon showed that night
CHAPTER XVII. For the first time in his experience
CHAPTER XVIII. On the day that old Creech repudiated his son
CHAPTER XIX. That track led up the narrowing canyon to its head
CHAPTER XX. A darkness, like the streaming clouds overhead