The Marble Faun
de Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Usado
- good
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0451519914
- ISBN 13
- 9780451519917
- Librería
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Sinopsis
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 and the New and the uncertain relationship between the 'authentic' and the 'fake' in life as in art. 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. 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.
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- Librería
- ThriftBooks (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- G0451519914I3N00
- Título
- The Marble Faun
- Autor
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Mass Market Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 2
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0451519914
- ISBN 13
- 9780451519917
- Editorial
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, New Yorik
- Fecha de publicación
- 1961
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