영어로 읽는 고전 _ 제임스 올리버 커우드의 마지 오둔의 용기
제임스 올리버 커우드의 "마지 오둔의 용기"는 20세기 초에 쓰인 소설입니다. 겨울철 혹독한 북부 황무지를 배경으로 한 이 이야기는 중심 인물을 통해 사랑, 상실, 개인적 변화라는 주제를 탐구합니다. 이야기는 실패한 결혼 생활과 아름다운 아내에 대한 잊혀지지 않는 기억에서 비롯된 내면의 혼란에 시달리는 남자 데이비드 레인으로 시작합니다. 책의 시작 부분에서는 눈에 갇힌 기차가 삭막하고 얼어붙은 풍경을 통해 불안한 승객을 태웁니다. 데이비드는 노련한 선교사인 롤랜드 신부와 깊은 대화를 나누며 아름답지만 불륜한 아내와 관련된 친구의 비극적인 이야기를 밝힙니다. 외부의 추위가 데이비드의 내부 감정 상태와 일치하면서 그는 자신의 삶의 결정과 배신의 극심한 고통을 되돌아봅니다. 분위기는 긴장감과 감정으로 가득 차 있으며, 데이비드가 치유와 자기 발견을 향한 여정을 위한 무대를 마련하며, 그들을 둘러싼 겨울 황무지에 대한 생생한 묘사가 강조됩니다.

The Courage of Marge O Doone by James Oliver Curwood
"The Courage of Marge O'Doone" by James Oliver Curwood is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set against the backdrop of a harsh Northern wilderness during winter, the story explores themes of love, loss, and personal transformation through its central characters. The narrative begins with David Raine, a man grappling with inner turmoil stemming from his failed marriage and the haunting memory of his beautiful wife. At the start of the book, a snowbound train carries anxious passengers through the stark, frozen landscape. David engages in a deep conversation with Father Roland, a seasoned Missioner, revealing his friend’s tragic story involving a beautiful but unfaithful wife. As the external cold matches David's internal emotional state, he reflects on his own life decisions and the excruciating pain of betrayal. The atmosphere is thick with suspense and emotion, setting the stage for David's journey toward healing and self-discovery, highlighted by the vivid descriptions of the wintry wilderness surrounding them.

Summary
If you had stood there in the edge of the bleak spruce forest, with the wind moaning dismally through the twisting trees?midnight of deep December?the Transcontinental would have looked like a thing of fire; dull fire, glowing with a smouldering warmth, but of strange ghostliness and out of place. It was a weird shadow, helpless and without motion, and black as the half-Arctic night save for the band of illumination that cut it in twain from the first coach to the last, with a space like an inky hyphen where the baggage car lay. Out of the North came armies of snow-laden clouds that scudded just above the earth, and with these clouds came now and then a shrieking mockery of wind to taunt this stricken creation of man and the creatures it sheltered?men and women who had begun to shiver, and whose tense white faces stared with increasing anxiety into the mysterious darkness of the night that hung like a sable curtain ten feet from the car windows.

Contents
CHAPTER I. If you had stood there in the edge of the bleak
CHAPTER II. Half a dozen times that night
CHAPTER III. David came up quietly to the door of the smoking
CHAPTER IV. David followed where he fancied
CHAPTER V. David held in his hands a photograph
CHAPTER VI. Sunshine followed storm
CHAPTER VII. Father Roland slipped the little plush box
CHAPTER VIII. Much to Thoreau's amazement
CHAPTER IX. In spite of the portentous significance of this day
CHAPTER X. It was Baree who disturbed the silent tableau
CHAPTER XI. They went down into the plain
CHAPTER XII. Not until afterward did David realize
CHAPTER XIII. For two or three minutes
CHAPTER XIV. In the days and weeks that followed
CHAPTER XV. Ten days after that night when he had gone
CHAPTER XVI. It was the week of the Big Festival
CHAPTER XVII. She was splendid as she stood there
CHAPTER XVIII. After that quietly spoken fact
CHAPTER XIX. They ate, facing each other
CHAPTER XX. He thought of her words a long time
CHAPTER XXI. It was Brokaw's voice again
CHAPTER XXII. The next instant Hauck was at the open door
CHAPTER XXIII. A series of sounds that came to him at first
CHAPTER XXIV. David no longer saw the horde of faces
CHAPTER XXV. In that chaotic night in which he was drifting
CHAPTER XXVI. Scarcely had David sensed the Girl's words of warning
CHAPTER XXVII. It may have been five minutes