The marble faun / Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, author.

Series:

John Harvard Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americans--Italy--Fiction.

Americans.

Women art students--Fiction.

Women art students.

Nobility--Fiction.

Nobility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press, [2012]

Summary:

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun mingles fable with fact in a mysterious tale of American artists liberated from New England mores in Rome. In his introduction, Andrew Delbanco remarks that Hawthorne’s novel is ultimately less about freedom than its costs. It is a book “that invites us to observe people in the grip of guilt, passion, or a naïve faith in God or art, and to watch them seek escape from their fears and doubts as their creed—whatever it is—fails them.” The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of The Marble Faun in The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Note on the Text

Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Life

Preface

The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni

I Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello

II The Faun

III Subterranean Reminiscences

IV The Spectre of the Catacomb

V Miriam’s Studio

VI The Virgin’s Shrine

VII Beatrice

VIII The Suburban Villa

IX The Faun and Nymph

X The Sylvan Dance

XI Fragmentary Sentences

XII A Stroll on the Pincian

XIII A Sculptor’s Studio

XIV Cleopatra

XV An Æsthetic Company

XVI A Moonlight Ramble

XVII Miriam’s Trouble

XVIII On the Edge of a Precipice

XIX The Faun’s Transformation

XX The Burial Chaunt

XXI The Dead Capuchin

XXII The Medici Gardens

XXIII Miriam and Hilda

XXIV The Tower Among the Apennines

XXV Sunshine

XXVI The Pedigree of Monte Beni

XXVII Myths

XXVIII The Owl-Tower

XXIX On the Battlements

XXX Donatello’s Bust

XXXI The Marble Saloon

XXXII Scenes by the Way

XXXIII Pictured Windows

XXXIV Market-Day in Perugia

XXV The Bronze Pontiff ’s Benediction

XXXVI Hilda’s Tower

XXXVII The Emptiness of Picture-Galleries

XXXVIII Altars and Incense

XXXIX The World’s Cathedral

XL Hilda and a Friend

XLI Snow-Drops and Maidenly Delights

XLII Reminiscences of Miriam

XLIII The Extinction of a Lamp

XLIV The Deserted Shrine

XLV The Flight of Hilda’s Doves

XLVI A Walk on the Campagna

XLVII The Peasant and Contadina

XLVIII A Scene in the Corso

XLIX A Frolic of the Carnival

L Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello

Selected Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-674-27360-5

OCLC:

44244821