The Marble Faun / / Nathaniel Hawthorne.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
• MitwirkendeR: Delbanco, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: John Harvard library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)

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.

Table of 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