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Marble Faun, The (Or the Romance of Monte Beni)
de Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Librería
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Oak Point, Texas, United States
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Howard Wilford Bell, New York, 1903. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 524pp; This is Hawthorne's classic tale, republished as the first book in the "Unit Books" series which began their release in 1903; Green boards with gilt lettering; There is substantial discoloration on the cover; Bumping and rubbing along the edges, with one small chip out of the spine cap; Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean with some foxing; Spine is just beginning to crack, and is visible from the title page; The last 8 pages are a description of the Unit Books series, how they are bound, priced, etc. They also include the tentative list of the first 100 books to be in the series, although at the time of printing, only the first 8 had target release dates; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 pound. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 101746. .
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
- Lotzabooks
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 101746
- Título
- Marble Faun, The (Or the Romance of Monte Beni)
- Autor
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Dust Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Howard Wilford Bell
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1903
- Palabras clave
- BZDB26 Fiction; Hawthorne, Nathaniel Marble Faun, The (Or the Romance of Monte Beni)
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
