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Marble Faun, The (Or the Romance of Monte Beni)
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Oak Point, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Howard Wilford Bell, New York, 1903. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 524pp; This is Hawthorne's classic tale, republished as the first book in the "Unit Books" series which began their release in 1903; Green boards with gilt lettering; There is substantial discoloration on the cover; Bumping and rubbing along the edges, with one small chip out of the spine cap; Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean with some foxing; Spine is just beginning to crack, and is visible from the title page; The last 8 pages are a description of the Unit Books series, how they are bound, priced, etc. They also include the tentative list of the first 100 books to be in the series, although at the time of printing, only the first 8 had target release dates; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 pound. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 101746. .
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
- Lotzabooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 101746
- Title
- Marble Faun, The (Or the Romance of Monte Beni)
- Author
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Howard Wilford Bell
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- BZDB26 Fiction; Hawthorne, Nathaniel Marble Faun, The (Or the Romance of Monte Beni)
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- Jacket
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- 12mo
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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