The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First Am edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 283, 288,16 pp. Original brown cloth with blind stamped design; gilt title to the spines. Some rubbing and wear to the boards; extremities. Spines lightly sunned. Previous owner's name in pencil on the ffep of volume II. Age toning to the fore edges. Internally fine.
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
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5618
- Title
- The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni
- Author
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Am edition
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1860
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
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- 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...
- FFEP
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