영어로 읽는 고전 _ 앤드류 랭의 옛 친구들의 편지
"옛 친구들: 서간체 패러디 에세이" (앤드류 랭 저)는 19세기 후반에 쓰여진 유머러스한 에세이 모음집입니다. 이 작품은 다양한 고전 소설과 문학 작품에서 가져온 등장인물들 사이에 오고 간 가상의 편지들을 특징으로 하며, 패러디적 관점을 통해 그들의 상호작용과 관계를 반영합니다. 이 에세이들은 이러한 사랑받는 등장인물들의 부조리함과 특이한 성격을 재치 있게 탐구하며, 그들의 허구적 삶과 랭의 시대의 사회적 관습 모두를 조명합니다.
이 모음집의 서두는 서로 다른 허구의 세계에 속한 등장인물들 사이의 보이지 않는 교차점에 대한 랭의 성찰을 담은 중심 주제를 소개합니다. 그는 새커리의 "뉴컴가(家)"의 클라이브 뉴컴과 같은 작가의 작품 속 아서 펜데니스와 같은 인물들이, 비록 서로 다른 소설에 존재하지만 서로 만났을 가능성에 대해 생각해봅니다.
이러한 기발한 전제는 우정, 향수, 그리고 다양한 허구의 영역들을 묶는 문학적 연결고리의 본질을 재미있게 해부하는 일련의 코믹한 편지들을 위한 무대를 마련하며, 뒤이어 나올 에세이들을 위한 유쾌한 톤을 확립합니다.

Classics Read in English _ Old Friends _ Essays in Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang
"Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody" by Andrew Lang is a collection of humorous essays written in the late 19th century. This work features a series of fictional letters exchanged between characters drawn from various classic novels and literary works, reflecting on their interactions and relationships through a parodic lens. The essays cleverly explore the absurdities and quirks of these beloved characters, illuminating both their fictional lives and the social mores of Lang's time. The opening of the collection introduces the central theme where Lang reflects on the unseen intersections between characters from distinct fictional worlds. He muses on the possibility that characters like Clive Newcome from Thackeray's "The Newcomes" and Arthur Pendennis from the same author might have encountered each other, despite existing in separate novels. This whimsical premise sets the stage for a series of comedic letters that playfully dissect the nature of friendship, nostalgia, and the literary connections binding various fictional realms, establishing a delightful tone for the essays to follow.

Among the contents
Every fancy which dwells much with the unborn and immortal characters of Fiction must ask itself, Did the persons in contemporary novels never meet? In so little a world their paths must often have crossed, their orbits must have intersected, though we hear nothing about the adventure from the accredited narrators. In historical fiction authors make their people meet real men and women of history?Louis XI., Lazarus, Mary Queen of Scots, General Webbe, Moses, the Man in the Iron Mask, Marie Antoinette; the list is endless. But novelists, in spite of Mr. Thackeray’s advice to Alexandre Dumas, and of his own example in “Rebecca and Rowena,” have not introduced each other’s characters. Dumas never pursued the fortunes of the Master of Ravenswood after he was picked up by that coasting vessel in the Kelpie’s Flow.

Contents
I. From Mr. Clive Newcome to Mr. Arthur Pendennis
II. From the Hon. Cecil Bertie to the Lady Guinevere
III. From Mr. Redmond Barry to his Uncle
IV. From Mrs. Gamp to Mrs. Prig
V. From Herodotus of Halicarnassus to Sophocles the Athenian
VI. From Mrs. Proudie to Mrs. Quiverful
From Mrs. Quiverful to Mrs. Proudie
VII. From Robert Surtees, Esq., of Mainsforth, to Jonathan Oldbuck, Esq., of Monkbarns
From Jonathan Oldbuck, Esq., of Monkbarns, to Robert Surtees, Esq., Mainsforth
From Robert Surtees, Esq., to Jonathan Oldbuck, Esq.
VIII. From Nicholas to the Editor of the ‘St. James’s Gazette’
IX. From the Earl of Montrose to Captain Dugald Dalgetty
From Captain Dugald Dalgetty, of Drumthwacket, to the Most Noble and Puissant Prince
James, Earl of Montrose, commanding the musters of the King in Scotland
X. From Mr. Lovelace to John Belford, Esq.
XI. From Miss Catherine Morland to Miss Eleanor Tilney
XII. From Montague Tigg, Esq., to Mr. David Crimp
From Mr. David Crimp to Montague Tigg, Esq.
XIII. From Christian to Piscator
From Piscator to Christian
XIV. From Truthful James to Mr. Bret Harte
XV. From Professor Forth to the Rev. Mr. Casaubon
From the Rev. Mr. Casaubon to James Forth, Esq., Professor of Etruscan, Oxford
From Professor Forth to Rev. Mr. Casaubon
From Mrs. Forth, Bradmore Road, Oxford, to David Rivers, Esq., Milnthorpe, Yorkshire
From David Rivers, Esq., to Mrs. Forth, Oxford
From Mrs. Casaubon to William Ladislaw, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
From William Ladislaw, Esq., to the Hon. Secretary of the Literary and Philosophical
Mechanics’ Institute, Middlemarch
From William Ladislaw, Esq., to Mrs. Casaubon
From Mrs. Casaubon to Mrs. Forth
XVI. From Euphues to Sir Amyas Leigh, Kt.
From Sir Amyas Leigh to Euphues
XVII. From Mr. Paul Rondelet to the Very Rev. Dean Maitland
XVIII. From Harold Skimpole, Esq., to the Rev. Charles Honeyman, M.A.
From the Rev. Charles Honeyman to Harold Skimpole, Esq.
XIX. From Miss Harriet to M. Guy de Maupassant
XX. From S. Gandish, Esq., to the ‘Newcome Independent’
From Thomas Potts, Esq., of the ‘Newcome Independent,’ to S. Gandish, Esq.
XXI. From Monsieur Lecoq, Rue Jerusalem, Paris, to Inspector Bucket, Scotland Yard
From Inspector Bucket to M. Lecoq
From Count Fosco to Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., Goswell Road
From Mr. Pickwick to the Count Fosco
From Inspector Bucket to M. Lecoq
From Mr. Pickwick to Mr. Perker, Solicitor, Gray’s Inn
From Monsieur Lecoq to Inspector Bucket
XXII. From Mr. Allan Quatermain to Sir Henry Curtis
XXIII. From the Baron Bradwardine to Edward Waverley, Esq., of Waverley Honour
APPENDIX. Note on Letter of Mr. Surtees to Mr. Jonathan Oldbuck