The complete online text of The Marble Faun - Volume 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Although Nathaniel Hawthorne called himself "the obscurest man in American letters," his achievements in fiction, both as short-story writer and novelist, offer models fashioned too well for contemporary and later writers to ignore. Even though fame was...

When Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on our most patriotic holiday in 1804, his ancestral roots were already deeply planted in New England. Writing in The Scarlet Letter (1850) of his sentimental affection for the town of his birth,...

In sketches, tales, and romances published in the second third of the nineteenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne chose mainly American materials, drawing especially on the history of colonial New England and his native Salem in the time of his early America...

LAST JUNE I WENT TO A CONFERENCE of Nathaniel Hawthorne scholars held in Rome, where the writer spent the winters of 1858 and '59 and found inspiration for The Marble Faun. There were Penguin editions of that book in the hands of these...

Similarities between 'Villette' and 'The Marble Faun' suggest that Nathaniel Hawthorne may have read Charlotte Bronte's novel and used it as a model for his book. Similarities between characters, settings, symbols, the occurrence of the supernatural and plot structure in the two books suggests...

Essay describes the three turning points in "The Marble Faun" written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.