The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
de Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Librería
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1869. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Early edition and printing, but not specified. Hard cover 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall in stamped brown cloth w/copper titles. Very Good/No DJ. Cloth scuffed, chipped at spine tips, spine slant; hinges strong, interior clean and unmarked. Volume I only, set in Italy. xi, 283pp.
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
- Basement Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 026290
- Título
- The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
- Autor
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Fields, Osgood and Co.
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1869
- Tamaño
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Palabras clave
- FICTION ITALY 19TH CENTURY OCCULT SUPERNATURAL
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature; Science Fiction/ Fantasy/Horror;
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