영어로 읽는 고전 _ 제임스 올리버 커우드의 위험한 길
제임스 올리버 커우드의 "The Danger Trail"은 20세기 초에 쓰인 소설입니다. 이 이야기는 야심 찬 엔지니어인 잭 하울랜드가 캐나다 북부의 거칠고 위험한 풍경 속에서 선구적인 철도 프로젝트에 착수하는 이야기를 중심으로 전개됩니다. 이 이야기는 위험, 로맨스, 자기 발견이라는 주제를 거친 자연의 아름다움 속에서 탐구하며, 하울랜드를 신비, 위험, 멜리스라는 매혹적인 여성과 마주하게 합니다. 소설의 시작 부분에서 우리는 잭 하울랜드를 만나게 되는데, 그는 중요한 프로젝트인 허드슨 베이 철도 건설의 문턱에 서면서 스릴 넘치는 모험심을 느끼고 성공을 꿈꿉니다. 그의 여정은 그에게 예상치 못한 감정을 불러일으키는 신비한 소녀 멜리스를 만나면서 빠르게 복잡해집니다. 서두의 챕터에서는 하울랜드의 흥분, 야심찬 계획, 그리고 멜리스를 둘러싼 더 깊은 미스터리에 얽히면서 다가오는 위험 감각을 묘사합니다. 그의 삶은 알려지지 않은 적들에게 위협을 받습니다. 그가 황야에서 공격을 간신히 피하면서 긴장감이 더욱 고조되고, 그를 위험과 로맨스의 회오리 속으로 밀어넣어 그의 실용적인 인생관에 도전합니다.

The Danger Trail by James Oliver Curwood
"The Danger Trail" by James Oliver Curwood is a novel written during the early 20th century. The story revolves around Jack Howland, an ambitious engineer, as he embarks on a pioneering railroad project in the wild and treacherous landscapes of northern Canada. The narrative explores themes of danger, romance, and self-discovery amid the harsh beauty of the wilderness, bringing Howland face-to-face with mysteries, peril, and a captivating woman named Meleese. At the start of the novel, we are introduced to Jack Howland who experiences a thrilling sense of adventure and dreams of success as he stands on the brink of a significant project?the building of the Hudson Bay Railroad. His journey quickly becomes complicated when he encounters a mysterious girl, Meleese, whose presence stirs unexpected emotions within him. The opening chapters depict Howland's excitement, his ambitious plans, and the sense of danger that looms as he becomes entangled in deeper mysteries surrounding Meleese, his life being threatened by unknown adversaries. The tension escalates further when he narrowly escapes an attack in the wilderness, pushing him into a whirlwind of danger and romance that challenges his pragmatic outlook on life.

Summary
For perhaps the first time in his life Howland felt the spirit of romance, of adventure, of sympathy for the picturesque and the unknown surging through his veins. A billion stars glowed like yellow, passionless eyes in the polar cold of the skies. Behind him, white in its sinuous twisting through the snow-smothered wilderness, lay the icy Saskatchewan, with a few scattered lights visible where Prince Albert, the last outpost of civilization, came down to the river half a mile away.
But it was into the North that Howland looked. From the top of the great ridge which he had climbed he gazed steadily into the white gloom which reached for a thousand miles from where he stood to the Arctic Sea. Faintly in the grim silence of the winter night there came to his ears the soft hissing sound of the aurora borealis as it played in its age-old song over the dome of the earth, and as he watched the cold flashes shooting like pale arrows through the distant sky and listened to its whispering music of unending loneliness and mystery, there came on him a strange feeling that it was beckoning to him and calling to him--telling him that up there very near to the end of the earth lay all that he had dreamed of and hoped for since he had grown old enough to begin the shaping of a destiny of his own.

Contents
I. The Girl of the Snows
II. Lips That Speak Not
III. The Mysterious Attack
IV. The Warning
V. Howland's Midnight Visitor
VI. The Love of a Man
VII. The Blowing of the Coyote
VIII. The Hour of Death
IX. The Tryst
X. A Race Into the North
XI. The House of the Red Death
XII. The Fight
XIII. The Pursuit
XIV. The Gleam of the Light
XV. In the Bedroom Chamber
XVI. Jean's Story
XVII. Meleese