Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
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 not be "insisted upon...
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