The Marble Faun: Or the Romance of Monte Beni (Centenary Edition IV of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne)

"The nineteenth century has produced no more purely original writer than Mr. Hawthorne. A shallow criticism has sometimes fancied a resemblance between him and Poe. But it seems to us that the difference between them is the immeasurable one between talent carried to its ultimate, and genius,--between a masterly adaptation of the world of sense and appearance to the purposes of Art, and a so thorough conception of the world of moral realities that Art becomes the interpreter of something profounder than herself. In this respect it is not extravagant to say that Hawthorne has something of kindred with Shakespeare."NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE is the author of 'The Marble Faun: Or the Romance of Monte Beni (Centenary Edition IV of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne)', published 1969 under ISBN 9780814200629 and ISBN 0814200621.