THE MARBLE FAUN OR THE ROMANCE OF MONTE BENI - BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE - VOLUME I - I850 - CONTENTS - INTRODUCTORY NOTE ....I X AUTHORS PREFACE . xxi I. AIIIRIAM

Though Nathaniel Hawthorne is best remembered as the author of the quintessential American parable The Scarlet Letter, some of the New England writer's work was

The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, also known by the British title Transformation, was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne,