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Hawthorne the marble faun5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() the profound conflict between the limited claims of American moralism and of European aestheticism.' inventory #31065. It projects the author's fascination with the eternal struggle between, in Murray Krieger's words, 'the unfeeling virtue of moral severity and the yielding grace of faulty humanity. THE MARBLE FAUN, or The Romance of Monte Beni By Nathaniel Hawthorne Volume II. Of all Hawthorne's fiction, The Marble Faun clearly dispels the myth of Hawthorne's unwavering Puritan morality. the murder committed by Donatello under Miriam's eyes and the ecstatic wandering, afterward, of the guilty couple through the 'bloodstained streets of Rome,' it would still deserve to rank high among the imaginative productions of our day.' The cosmopolitanism of this novel foreshadows one of the most important themes in our literature - the 'international theme' which was 40 later dominate the work of Henry James. If the book contained nothing else noteworthy but. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun 0 likes Like Miriam admired the statue of a beautiful youth, a pearlfisher who had got entangled in the weeds at the bottom of the sea, and lay dead among the pearl-oysters, the rich shells, and the seaweeds, all of like value to him now. ![]() FROM THE PUBLISHER - Henry James wrote of The Marble Faun: 'Hawthorne has done few things more beautiful than the picture of the unequal complicity of guilt between his immature and dimly - puzzled hero, with his clinging, unquestioning, unexacting devotion, and the dark, powerful, more widely - seeing feminine nature of Miriam. ![]()
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