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The Marble Faun

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1859 378 pages eng ★ 3.8 (5 ratings)

Hawthorne's novel of Americans abroad, the first novel to explore the influence of European cultural ideas on American morality. Although it is set in Rome, the fictive world of The Marble Faun depends not on Italy's social or historical significance, but rather on its aesthetic importance as a defi…

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