false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170344857m/47059.jpg 47059 47 '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. 626017 1860 The Marble Faun (Oxford World's Classics) total:282|5:54|4:77|3:101|2:36|1:14| 282 967 529 31 2 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 20:01:10 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 04:38:02 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 11 05:13:57 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 05:17:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 14 14:28:41 -0800 2008 Mon Aug 11 09:52:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 01 17:40:51 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 14 14:21:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri May 08 21:10:27 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 21:13:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 13:53:53 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 13:55:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 06:22:10 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 06:22:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 12:42:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 12:51:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Aug 13 08:41:05 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 08:49:22 -0700 2009 ]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 29 17:19:39 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 17:34:29 -0800 2008 1 3 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 10:43:42 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 10:45:14 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 13:08:39 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 07:21:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Apr 17 08:42:29 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 08:42:38 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 00:46:58 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 15:11:11 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Mar 26 06:12:26 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 06:17:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 18 05:30:38 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 05:35:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 17:33:49 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 17:35:35 -0700 2007
I found it interesting how Hawthorne left many questions unanswered, but felt he had to add on a conclusion to stop his readers fr...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Feb 13 12:22:36 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 06:30:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 10:19:21 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 22:59:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Nov 17 09:51:09 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 07:02:34 -0800 2008 books.google.com]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=47059