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The Marble Faun
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Description for The Marble Faun
Paperback. Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance concerns a group of American expatriates in mid-nineteenth century Italy, and their tragic encounter with the faun-like Italian count, Donatello. It is both a murder story and a parable of the Fall of Man, dominated by the fragility and durability of human life and art. Editor(s): Manning, Susan. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 298.
'any narrative of human action and adventure - whether we call it history or Romance - is certain to be a fragile handiwork, more easily rent than mended' The fragility - and the durability - of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the 'Marble Faun', Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World ... Read more
'any narrative of human action and adventure - whether we call it history or Romance - is certain to be a fragile handiwork, more easily rent than mended' The fragility - and the durability - of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the 'Marble Faun', Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
297g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199554072
SKU
V9780199554072
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About Nathaniel Hawthorne
Susan Manning has previously edited Scott's Quentin Durward, Washington Irving's Sketchbook and Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer for OWC. Her books include The Puritan-Provincial Vision (CUP, 1990) and Fragments of Union (Palgrave, 2001).
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