The Marble Faun

Nathaniel Hawthorne

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

Three young artists and a beautiful, simple Italian count who seems the living image of an antique faun; the single crime that shatters their Roman Eden and awakens the innocent faun into a suffering, fully human soul. Hawthorne's last completed romance, of art, sin, and Rome.

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