The Marble Faun
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good - Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Hudson, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890. One of the earliest editions, 2 volume red/white cloth gold lettering with gold top page ends, I believe this to be published by houghton-mifflin in 1890 one past copyright 1889,this copy has previous owners name and dated 1889.If not for the soiling of the covers this would be VG-NF,very tight bindings,minor sheftwear. Nice set, if you clean the covers. Unknown. Hardcover. Good - Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by With Photograves.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Pulitzer Prize Books.com
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 443
- Title
- The Marble Faun
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Illustrator
- With Photograves
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Unknown
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1890
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