The four main characters are Miriam, a beautiful painter who is compared to Eve, Beatrice Cenci, Lady Macbeth, Judith, and Cleopatra, and is being pursued by a mysterious, threatening Model Hilda, an innocent copyist who is compared to the Virgin Mary Kenyon, a sculptor, who represents rationalist humanism and Donatello, the Count of Monti Beni, who is compared to Adam, resembles the Faun of Praxiteles, and is probably only half human. It is true that Faulk-ners first volume (which consists of quite undistinguished verse) was entitled The Marble Faun, but I do not attach much importance to this fact. The theme, characteristic of Hawthorne, is guilt and the Fall of Man. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni is the last novel written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. likes Hawthorne, or has read him much, or little, or not at all. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1 Hardcover 8 offers from 9.99 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 5,659 Paperback 28 offers from 1. In the spring of 1858, Hawthorne was inspired to write his romance when he saw the Faun of Praxiteles in a Roman sculpture gallery. The Marble Faun (Nathaniel Hawthornes Collectors Edition) Nathaniel Hawthorne 36 Paperback 2 offers from 3.99 THE MARBLE FAUN: or, The Romance of Monte Beni. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, Gothic novel, and travel guide. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Marble Faun
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