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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Marble Faun: Chapters 1 - 23

Hawthorne's "Preface":

Hawthorne writes to his "Reader" from a "foreign land" (England). He
plans to state a "few particulars about the work ... offered to the Public";
then, he will make his "most reverential bow and retire behind the curtain."
He claims that he has written "a fanciful story, evolving a thoughtful moral,"
with no attempt at picturing Italian manners and character. Italy, the setting
of the "Romance," offers Hawthorne a "sort of poetic or fairy precinct," where
the basic truths of daily living will ...

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