The Marble Faun
or, The Romance of Monte Beni
$43.07
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
1 November 1990
Summary
Hawthorne’s novel of Americans abroad, the first novel to explore the influence of European cultural ideas on American morality.
Although it is set in Rome, the fictive world of The Marble Faun depends not on Italy’s social or historical significance, but rather on its aesthetic importance as a definer of ‘civilization’. As in The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne is concerned here with the nature of transgression and guilt. A murder, motivated by love, affects not only Dona…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140390773 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140390774 |
| Author: | Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard H. Brodhead |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 1990 |
| Weight: | 381g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“Describ[es] Rome and Italian scenes as few others have.” - Anthony Trollope
“Describ[es] Rome and Italian scenes as few others have.” —Anthony Trollope
About The Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts. He was the son and grandson of New England seafarers and lived with his widowed mother and two young sisters in a house filled with Puritan ideals.
In 1825, he graduated from Bowdoin College and returned to Salem with the ambition to become a writer of short stories. For twelve years, he struggled with self-doubt as he honed his craft, eventually achieving some success with the publication of his Twice-Told Tales in 1837.
Hawthorne married Sophia Peabody in 1842, and they had a happy marriage. His novel The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, brought him immediate recognition, followed by The House of the Seven Gables in 1851.
After serving as the American Consul in Liverpool, England, for four years, he traveled in Italy before returning to Massachusetts in 1860. Nathaniel Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, in Plymouth, New Hampshire, feeling depressed, weary of writing, and in failing health.
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