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The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance Of Monte Beni
de Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- Full crimson calf. Aeg. Fine. 2 Vols
- Librería
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ardsley, New York, United States
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Boston: Ticknor And Fields, 1860. First American edition. leather_bound. Full crimson calf. Aeg. Fine. 2 Vols. 283, 284. 18 x 12. First issue with 16 pps. of adverts dated March 1860. An unsigned elegant binding, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, cover border panels in interlocking floral motifs, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. The London and Boston editions were supposed to be issued simultaneously. "Contemporary notices indicate that the London edition was issued prior to the Boston edition, but simultaneous publication may have occurred." [see:BLANCK 7621].
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
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 22905
- Título
- The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance Of Monte Beni
- Autor
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Leather_bound
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Full crimson calf. Aeg. Fine. 2 Vols
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First American edition
- Editorial
- Ticknor And Fields
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1860
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Literature
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Americana;
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ardsley, New York
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