The Marble Faun
Murder and romance, innocence and experience dominate this sinister novel set in mid-19th-century Rome. Three young American artists and their friend, an Italian count, find their lives irrevocably linked when one of them commits a violent crime of passion. Hawthorne's final novel is "must...
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Murder and romance, innocence and experience dominate this sinister novel set in mid-19th-century Rome. Three young American artists and their friend, an Italian count, find their lives irrevocably linked when one of them commits a violent crime of passion. Hawthorne's final novel is "must reading" for its symbolic narrative of the Fall of Man.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486434117 (0486434117)
ASIN: 486434117
Publish date: June 4th 2004
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
American,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Art,
19th Century
Thank you Little Edie, I never would have picked this if it hadn't been for you.'The Marble Faun' follows three expatriate artists and their Italian friend Donatello living in Rome in the mid 19th century. Hilda is sweet-natured and devout, literally living above the city in a tower room and, though...
I loved Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables; I thought both had brilliant characters and writing. In the case of Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter, I loved her strength and abiding compassion. And in The House of Seven Gables I loved the old maid Hepzibah and her cousin Ph...
I really like Hawthorne’s writing. He wrote two of my favorite works. But for me, The Marble Faun is missing something.The good: Hawthorne makes some really good insights here...exposing the irony of art and situation...what might really go on behind the scenes when creating a piece of art or sculpt...
[These notes were made in 1983:]. I found this a very pleasant read, and with more substance than I anticipated from a preliminary brush through the first chapters. It was written in Italy, and abounds in that luxurious description of old artworks and older buildings which seems to overtake so many...
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