![]() ![]() As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favorite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the 'authentic' and the 'fake' in life as in art. 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. Set in Italy, the narrative blends elements of the travel guide, fable. B right green boards with red and dark green design, embossed cover. See images for the condition of this book.īlurb: The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. The Marble Faun of 1860 was the last of Nathaniel Hawthornes four major romances. ![]() Condition: Acceptable: Signs of wear and consistent use. ![]()
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