Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Marble Faun
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(Digireads.com July 1, 2004)
"The Marble Faun", the last of the four major romances that Hawthorne wrote. It is the story of four main characters: Miriam, a beautiful painter; Hilda, an innocent copyist; Kenyon, a sculptor; and Donatello, the Count of Monti Beni. Central to the novel is a theme common to Hawthorne's work, guilt and the Fall of Man. Published in 1860, "The Marble Faun" is an unusual romance and one of the great writer's classic works.