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The Marble Faun: Illustrated

The Marble Faun: Illustrated

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerRomanceClassic Fiction

ISBN10: 154074986X
ISBN13: 9781540749864
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 2 2016
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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 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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