The Marble Faun Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne Henry James wrote of The Marble Faun: "Hawthorne has done few things more beautiful than the picture of the unequal complicity of guilt between his immature and dimly-puzzled hero... and the dark, powerful, more widely-seeing feminine nature of Miriam." With an Afterword by Murray Krieger. — Filled with descriptions of 19th Century Rome and its e... more »nvirons, this evocative, romantic mystery story reveals Hawthorne's deep ambivalence about his proverbial Puritan morality.« less