Marble Faun

Name: Marble Faun
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ISBN: 9780199554072

ISBN-10: 0199554072

ISBN-13: 9780199554072

Edition: 2009

Authors: Nathaniel. Hawthorne, Susan Manning

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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 sinisterturn 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…

Book details

List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.72" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English