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Hawthorne, Nathaniel [1804 - 1864] - The MARBLE FAUN, or The Romance of Monte Beni. Illustrated with Photogravures. In Two Volumes

Title: The MARBLE FAUN, or The Romance of Monte Beni. Illustrated with Photogravures. In Two Volumes
Description: Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894. White cloth spine with red cloth boards, gilt stamped lettering & decorations. TEG. Red linen dust jackets. Matching red linen publisher's slipcase with gilt stamped titling to one side. ii, [3] - 266; [8], [267] - 527, [1 (blank)] pp). Title page printed in red & black. Illustrated with 51 inserted plates. 8vo. 6-3/4" x 4-5/8" Published in Britain under the title Transformation, the Marble Faun was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and 1st published in 1860. The novel is set in a fantastical Italy, and the novel mixes elements of fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide. Critical reception of the work varied.. "Ralph Waldo Emerson called the novel "mush" but James Russell Lowell was pleased with it and praised it as a Christian parable. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow privately wrote that it was a 'wonderful book' but that it had 'the old, dull pain in it that runs through all of Hawthorne's writings'. Reviews were generally favorable, though many were confused by the ending which was ambiguous. William Dean Howells later wrote: 'Everybody was reading it, and more or less bewailing its indefinite close, but yielding him that full honor and praise which a writer can hope for but once in his life.'  Friend and critic Edwin Percy Whipple noted that, even if Hawthorne had written nothing else, The Marble Faun would qualify him as a master of English composition." [Wiki]. Spines a bit darkened, with some foxing present. Penciled pos to ffep. VG+ volumes, in VG+ jackets, which have sunned spine panels. Box - also VG+ .

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Price: US$ 165.00 Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA
- Book number: 39862

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