| Description |
1 online resource (430 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford World's Classics |
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Oxford world's classics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne; Maps; THE MARBLE FAUN; Postscript; Explanatory Notes |
| Summary |
Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance concerns a group of American expatriates in mid-nineteenth century Italy, and their tragic encounter with the faun-like Italian count, Donatello. It is both a murder story and a parable of the Fall of Man, dominated by the fragility and durability of human life and art. - ;'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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Manning, Susan, 1953-2013.
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| ISBN |
0191610755 |
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1283296713 |
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9780191610752 |
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9781283296717 |
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