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The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni
de Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First Edition, second printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volume set. 19 x 12 cm. 12mo. 283pp 16pp ads, 284pp. First edition, second printing as per BAL. Bound in brown blind-stamped cloth. 16 page publisher's catalogue dated March, 1860. Bit of spotting to the pages. Head and tails of spines are a bit chipped. There is a bit of sticker residue to front endpaper of volume 1. BAL 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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- 70948
- Título
- The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni
- Autor
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Formato/Encuadernación
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- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
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- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, second printing
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- Ticknor and Fields
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1860
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- Literature/Fiction;
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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- BAL
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- First Edition
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