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The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni
de HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First Edition. Fourth printing. 12mo (19cm). Two volumes in blindstamped brown cloth, titled in gilt on spines; red-brown coated endpapers; [i]-[xiv] [15]-283,[1],16pp; 288pp; 16pp publisher's catalogue inserted at rear of vol. 1, dated May, 1860. Straight volumes, gently loosened and rubbed, vol. I with mild dampstaining to lower edge of textblock, vol. 2 with dampstaining to lower half of textblock and boards, around Good.
The first printing to include the Conclusion, which Hawthorne added in response to readers' complaints about the originally ambiguous ending. CLARK A23.3.d. BAL 7624.
The first printing to include the Conclusion, which Hawthorne added in response to readers' complaints about the originally ambiguous ending. CLARK A23.3.d. BAL 7624.
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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- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 59077
- Título
- The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni
- Autor
- HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Ticknor and Fields
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1860
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature Before 1900;
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- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
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