The Marble Faun (Oxford World's Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Author: Nathaniel HawthorneEditor: Susan Manning
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-03-07
ISBN: 0192839764
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Reviews of The Marble Faun (Oxford World's Classics)
Book Review: A Novel of Conscience
Summary: 5 Stars
This penetrating and provocative novel has the power to create a trance-like state in the reader's mind. Much of the dream quality of the scenes is the result of the setting in historic Rome, the art focused characters, and, especially, the author's poetic genius.
Like "The Scarlet Letter" and other Nathaniel Hawthorne works, this story centers upon morality and the value of experience in a person's growth, and here read "SIN" for experience.
I read the book in four days, and that is a dash for me. Totally immersed in the story, I frequently found myself marveling at the poetic presentation of universal truths about mankind; some of which had me re-examining hard won personal realizations about morality.
It had been years since I read this icon of the American Renaissance; I'll be reading another selection of his soon.
Summary of The Marble Faun (Oxford World's Classics)
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 favorite 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.
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