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The Marble Faun, written on the eve of the American Civil War, is set in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide . Characters. This romance focuses on four main characters: Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, and Donatello. Miriam is a beautiful painter with an unknown past.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 1860
16 de abr. de 2024 · The Marble Faun, novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1860. It is one of the works Hawthorne called romances—“unrealistic” stories in exotic settings. The central metaphor of The Marble Faun is a statue of a faun by Praxiteles that Hawthorne had seen in Rome.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 1860
The Marble Faun. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Susan Manning (Editor) 3.47. 3,229 ratings228 reviews. The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century.
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25 de feb. de 2006 · The resemblance between the marble Faun and their living companion had made a deep, half-serious, half-mirthful impression on these three friends, and had taken them into a certain airy region, lifting up, as it is so pleasant to feel them lifted, their heavy earthly feet from the actual soil of life.
5 de sept. de 2023 · Mindy Spradlin. | Certified Educator. Last Updated September 5, 2023. The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni is a novel by British author Nathaniel Hawthorne published in 1860. The...
Books. The Marble Faun. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Oxford University Press, UK, Jan 17, 2002 - Fiction - 375 pages. Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance concerns a group of American expatriates in...
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...
