Andrew Delbanco
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Explains how fugitive slaves escaping from the South to the northern states awakened northerners to the true nature of slavery and how the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act divided the nation and set it on the path to civil war.
Author
Language
English
Description
The fragility -- and the durability -- of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the 'Marble Faun', Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made "The Marble Faun" a favorite...
