The Marble Faun: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Marble Faun, credited to Nathaniel Hawthorne, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Marble Faun, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Read by volunteer readers. The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide. In the spring of 1858, Hawthorne was inspired to write his romance when he saw the Faun of Praxiteles in a Roman sculpture gallery. The theme, characteristic of Hawthorne, is guilt and the Fall of Man. The four main characters are Miriam, a beautiful painter who is compared to Eve, Beatrice Cenci, Lady Macbeth, Judith, and Cleopatra, and is being pursued by a mysterious, threatening Model; Hilda, an innocent copyist who is compared to the Virgin Mary; Kenyon, a sculptor, who represents rationalist humanism; and Donatello, the Count of Monti Beni, who is compared to Adam, resembles the Faun of Praxiteles, and is probably only half human. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Marble Faun
• Author credits: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 50
• Listed recording duration: 16:12:57

Catalogue topics

• romance
• fable
• Italy

Opening tracks: first 24 of 50

1. 01 - Chapter I: MIRIAM, HILDA, KENYON, DONATELLO — 12:04
2. 02 - Chapter II: THE FAUN — 13:58
3. 03 - Chapter III: SUBTERRANEAN REMINISCENCES — 13:41
4. 04 - Chapter IV: THE SPECTRE OF THE CATACOMB — 20:40
5. 05 - Chapter V: MIRIAM'S STUDIO — 25:49
6. 06 - Chapter VI: THE VIRGIN'S SHRINE — 24:08
7. 07 - Chapter VII: BEATRICE — 18:18
8. 08 - Chapter VIII: THE SUBURBAN VILLA — 16:17
9. 09 - Chapter IX: THE FAUN AND NYMPH — 19:06
10. 10 - Chapter X: THE SYLVAN DANCE — 16:13
11. 11 - Chapter XI: FRAGMENTARY SENTENCES — 17:00
12. 12 - Chapter XII: A STROLL ON THE PINCIAN — 33:07
13. 13 - Chapter XIII: A SCULPTOR'S STUDIO — 22:19
14. 14 - Chapter XIV: CLEOPATRA — 18:26
15. 15 - Chapter XV: AN AESTHETIC COMPANY — 24:18
16. 16 - Chapter XVI: A MOONLIGHT RAMBLE — 24:23
17. 17 - Chapter XVII: MIRIAM'S TROUBLE — 17:59
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII: ON THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE — 18:06
19. 19 - Chapter XIX: THE FAUN'S TRANSFORMATION — 9:20
20. 20 - Chapter XX: THE BURIAL CHANT — 13:47
21. 21 - Chapter XXI: THE DEAD CAPUCHIN — 18:53
22. 22 - Chapter XXII: THE MEDICI GARDENS — 14:46
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII: MIRIAM AND HILDA — 27:48
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV: THE TOWER AMONG THE APENNINES — 18:35

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