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The Marble Faun (Paperback)
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The Marble Faun (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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'any narrative of human action and adventure - whether we call it
history or Romance - is certain to be a fragile handiwork, more
easily rent than mended' 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 favourite 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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over
100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest
range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
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