[오늘의 한문장] 비밀첩보원 THE SECRET AGENT

The window contained photographs of more or less undressed dancing girls; nondescript packages in wrappers like patent medicines; closed yellow paper envelopes, very flimsy, and marked two-and-six oin heavy black figures; a few numbers of ancient French comic publications hung across a string as if to dry; a dingy blue china bowl, a casket of black wood, bottles of marking ink, and rubber stamps; a few books, with titles hinting at impropriety; a few apparently old copies of obscure newspapers, badly printed, with titles like The Touch, The Gong-rousing titles. And the two gas jets inside the panes were always turned low, either for economy‘s sake or for the sake of the customers.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 비밀첩보원 THE SECRET AGENT

The shop was a square box of a place, with the front glazed in small panes. In the daytime the door remained closed, in the evening it stood discreetly but suspiciously ajar.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 비밀첩보원 THE SECRET AGENT

Mr Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business. And, moreover, his wife was in charge of his brother-in-law.

The shop was small, and so was the house. It was one of those grimy brick houses which existed in large quantities before the era of reconstruction dawned upon London.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 비밀첩보원 THE SECRET AGENT

CHAPTER I
Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law to It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. - P11

[오늘의 한문장] 비밀첩보원 THE SECRET AGENT

■ 저자 소개

조셉 콘래드(1857년 ~ 1924년)는 폴란드 출생의 소설가로 부친의 혁명 운동 때문에 갖은 고생을 했습니다. 27세 때 영국에 귀화했습니다. <<올메이어의 어리석은 행위>>를 처녀작으로 <<나르시소스호의 흑인ㄷ
>> 등 많은 작품이 있으며, 그 중에서도 <<어둠의 심장>>, <<태풍>> 은 탁월한 단편소설입니다.
- P3