The Marble Faun
'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. 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 betw…
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Weitere Autoren: Manning, Susan (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-161129-2
- EAN: 9780191611292
- Produktnummer: 13875751
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'471 KB
- Abbildungen: 2 maps
Über den Autor
Susan Manning has previously edited Scott's Quentin Durward, Washington Irving's Sketchbook and Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer for OWC. Her books include The Puritan-Provincial Vision (CUP, 1990) and Fragments of Union (Palgrave, 2001).
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