The Marble Faun

or, The Romance of Monte Beni

By:

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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 ofThe Marble Faundepends not on Italy's social or historical significance, but rather on its aesthetic importance as a definer of 'civilization'. As inThe Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne is concerned here with the nature of transgression and guilt. A murder, motivated by love, affects not only Donatello, the murderer, but his beloved Miriam and their friends Hilda and Kenyon. As he explores the reactions of each to the crime, Hawthorne dramatizes both the freedoms a new cultural model inspires and the self-censoring conformities it requires. His examination of the influence of European culture on American travellers lay the groundwork for such later works of American fiction as Mark Twain'sThe Innocents Abroadand Henry James'The Portrait of a Lady.

Author Biography:

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, the son and grandson of proud New England seafarers. He lived in genteel poverty with his widowed mother and two young sisters in a house filled with Puritan ideals and family pride in a prosperous past. His boyhood was, in most respects, pleasant and normal. In 1825 he was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, and he returned to Salem determined to become a writer of short stories. For the next twelve years he was plagued with unhappiness and self-doubts as he struggled to master his craft. He finally secured some small measure of success with the publication of his Twice-Told Tales (1837). His marriage to Sophia Peabody in 1842 was a happy one. The Scarlet Letter (1850), which brought him immediate recognition, was followed by The House of the Seven Gables (1851). After serving four years as the American Consul in Liverpool, England, he traveled in Italy; he returned home to Massachusetts in 1860. Depressed, weary of writing, and failing in health, he died on May 19, 1864, at Plymouth, New Hampshire.

Release date NZ

November 1st, 1990

Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Richard H. Brodhead

Pages

528

Dimensions

130x196x30

ISBN-13

9780140390773

Product ID

14289115

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