The marble faun
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Published
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2002.
Status
Central - Adult Fiction
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Published
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2002.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
l, 375 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [xliii]-xlvi).
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"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 his 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."--Jacket.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hawthorne, N., & Manning, S. (2002). The marble faun . Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 and Susan Manning. 2002. The Marble Faun. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 and Susan Manning. The Marble Faun Oxford University Press, 2002.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and Susan Manning. The Marble Faun Oxford University Press, 2002.
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