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Marble Romance Faun Nathaiel Hawthorn Kenyon Hilda Americans

Front The Marble Faun
Back A Novel
Nathaiel Hawthorn
1860
Kenyon and Hilda are two Americans studying art in Rome
With their friend Miriam an artist

The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, also known by the British title Transformation, was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and was published in 1860. The Marble Faun, written on the eve of the American Civil War, is set in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide.

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