Marble Faun

Informationen zum 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). Klappentext Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance concerns a group of American expatriates in mid-nineteenth century Italy, and their tragic encounter with the faun-like Italian count, Donatello. It is both a murder story and a parable of the Fall of Man, dominated by the fragility and durability of human life and art. Zusammenfassung Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance concerns a group of American expatriates in mid-nineteenth century Italy, and their tragic encounter with the faun-like Italian count, Donatello. It is both a murder story and a parable of the Fall of Man, dominated by the fragility and durability of human life and art.

Product details

• Authors: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Assisted by: Susan Manning (Editor), Susan (Grierson Professor of English Literature Manning (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2008
• EAN: 9780199554072
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955407-2
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Oxford World's Classics; Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary