나다니엘 호손의 우리의 옛 집

<영어로 읽는 고전 _ 나다니엘 호손의 우리의 옛 집>
"우리의 옛 집: 일련의 영어 스케치"는 Nathaniel Hawthorne이 쓴 에세이 모음집으로, 1863년에 처음 출판된 이 책은 1853년부터 1857년까지 영국에 살았던 호손의 경험을 전하고 있다.
"Our Old Home"에서 Hawthorne은 영국 사회, 문화, 역사의 다양한 측면을 이야기하고있다. 그는 영국의 관습, 건축, 문학, 풍경에 대한 관찰을 제공하며 감탄과 비평을 모두 제공해 준다. 세부 사항에 대한 예리한 안목과 성찰적인 문체를 통해 Hawthorne은 19세기 중반 영국과 그 사람들의 생생한 초상화를 묘사하고 있다.
"우리의 옛 집"에 실린 에세이는 역사적 명소 방문부터 영국 작가들의 토론, 당시의 사회적, 정치적 환경에 대한 고찰까지 다양한 주제를 다루고 있다. 이 컬렉션에 포함된 Hawthorne의 글쓰기 스타일은 정체성, 유산, 시간의 흐름이라는 주제를 탐구하면서 반성적이고 명상적인 어조가 특징이다.

<Classics to read in English_ Our Old Home _ A Series of English Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne >
"Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches" is a collection of essays written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. First published in 1863, the book tells of Hawthorne's experiences living in England from 1853 to 1857.

In "Our Old Home," Hawthorne discusses various aspects of British society, culture, and history. He offers observations of British customs, architecture, literature, and landscape, offering both admiration and criticism. With a keen eye for detail and a reflective style, Hawthorne paints a vivid portrait of mid-19th century England and its people.
The essays in "Our Old Home" cover a wide range of topics, from visits to historical landmarks to discussions of British writers to reflections on the social and political environment of the time. Hawthorne's writing style in this collection is characterized by a reflective and meditative tone, exploring themes of identity, heritage, and the passage of time.

Summary
The Consulate of the United States, in my day, was located in Washington Buildings (a shabby and smoke-stained edifice of four stories high, thus illustriously named in honor of our national establishment), at the lower corner of Brunswick Street, contiguous to the Gorec Arcade, and in the neighborhood of scone of the oldest docks. This was by no means a polite or elegant portion of England's great commercial city, nor were the apartments of the American official so splendid as to indicate the assumption of much consular pomp on his part. A narrow and ill-lighted staircase gave access to an equally narrow and ill-lighted passageway on the first floor, at the extremity of which, surmounting a door-frame, appeared an exceedingly stiff pictorial representation of the Goose and Gridiron, according to the English idea of those ever-to-be-honored symbols.