Coverdale’s Confession
The Marble Faun
1 Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello
2 The Faun
3 Subterranean Reminiscences
4 The Spectre of the Catacomb
5 Miriam’s Studio
6 The Virgin’s Shrine
7 Beatrice
8 The Suburban Villa
9 The Faun and Nymph
10 The Sylvan Dance
11 Fragmentary Sentences
12 A Stroll on the Pincian
13 A Sculptor’s Studio
14 Cleopatra
15 An Aesthetic Company
16 A Moonlight Ramble
17 Miriam’s Trouble
18 On the Edge of a Precipice
19 The Faun’s Transformation
20 The Burial Chant
21 The Dead Capuchin
22 The Medici Gardens
23 Miriam and Hilda
24 The Tower Among the Apennines
25 Sunshine
26 The Pedigree of Monte Beni
27 Myths
28 The Owl Tower
29 On the Battlements
30 Donatello’s Bust
31 The Marble Saloon
32 Scenes by the Way
33 Pictured Windows
34 Market Day in Perugia
35 The Bronze Pontiff’s Benediction
36 Hilda’s Tower
37 The Emptiness of Picture Galleries
38 Altars and Incense
39 The World’s Cathedral
40 Hilda and a Friend
41 Snowdrops and Maidenly Delights
42 Reminiscences of Miriam
43 The Extinction of a Lamp
44 The Deserted Shrine
45 The Flight of Hilda’s Doves
46 A Walk on the Campagna
47 The Peasant and Contadina
48 A Scene in the Corso
49 A Frolic of the Carnival
50 Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello
51 Conclusion
The Dolliver Romance
A Scene from the Dolliver Romance
Another Scene from the Dolliver Romance
Another Fragment of the Dolliver Romance
Septimius Felton or, the Elixir of Life
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: a Romance
Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Fanshawe
Introductory Note.
In 1828, three years after graduating from Bowdoin College, Hawthorne published his first romance, “Fanshawe.” It was issued at Boston by Marsh & Capen, but made little or no impression on the public. The motto on the title-page of the original was from Southey: “Wilt thou go on with me?”
Afterwards, when he had struck into the vein of fiction that came to be known as distinctively his own, he attempted
