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The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni // FIRST EDITION // 2 Volumes
de Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST Edition, Second Printing, as the 16 pages of advertisements in Volume I are dated March 1860. LISTED in "The Checklist Of Fantastic Literature" by E.F. Bleiler. Preface is preceding contents, correctly. Two volume set - Very Good, being re-cased (tight text block) with original blind stamped cloth onto new boards. Still bright gilt spine titles. Original brown end-papers in place (no markings), with new blank end-papers just before it. Volume I (only) has a small previous owners name, dated 1860 on a blank white end-paper. Last blank page of Volume I has a penciled 'copy' of a letter/opinion written to Hawthorne by John Lothrop Motley, about this title. Motley was an American historian,1814 - 1877. Interesting. Otherwise volumes are clean, no markings. Preface is before "Contents. Volume 1 shows 'on' instead of 'for' on page 225, line 22 and lacks 'Conclusion' in Volume II. Sixteen pages of ads at rear of volume I - (another first edition point). Fabulous First Edition of this classic romance.
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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- Título
- The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni // FIRST EDITION // 2 Volumes
- Autor
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
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- 1
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- 1st Edition
- Editorial
- Ticknor and Fields
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1860
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- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Classic; romance; fairy tale;
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