[오늘의 한문장] 주홍글씨 The Scarlet Letter

The example of the famous " P.P, Clerk of this Parish, " was never more faithfully followed. The truth seems to be, however, that when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him better than most of his schoolmates or lifemates.
- P10

[오늘의 한문장] 주홍글씨 The Scarlet Letter

And now-because, beyond my desert, I was happy enough to find a listener or two on the former occasion-I again seize the public by the button, and talk of my three years‘ experience in a Custom-House.
- P9

[오늘의 한문장] 주홍글씨 The Scarlet Letter

The first time was three or four years since, when I favoured the reader-inexcusably, and for no earthly reason that either the indulgent reader or the intrusive author could imagine-with a description of my wayof life in the deep quietude of an Old Manse.
- P9

[오늘의 한문장] 주홍글씨 The Scarlet Letter

THE CUSTOM HOUSE
INTRODUCTORY TO "THE SCARLET LETTER"
It is a little remarkable, that-though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends-an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public.
- P9

[오늘의 한문장] 주홍글씨 The Scarlet Letter

■ 저자 소개

나다니엘 호손(Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804년 7월 2일 - 1864년 5월 15일)은 미국의 대표적 소설가입니다. 외교관으로도 근무하였습니다. 호손은 인간의 내면세계를 윤리적 관점에서 탁월한 상징수법으로 분석했습니다.
- P3