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<Text id=HawMarb>
<Author>Hawthorne, Nathaniel</Author>
<Title>The Marble Faun, of The Romance of Monte Beni</Title>
<Edition>Novels. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1983</Edition>
<Date>1858-1860</Date>
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<loc><locdoc>HawMarb853</locdoc><milestone n=853>
<div0 type=chapter n=Preface>
<l> <i>Preface</i> </l>
<p>It is now seven or eight years (so many, at all
events, that I cannot precisely remembersince the Author of
this Romance last appeared before the Public. It had grown
to be a custom with him, to introduce each of his humble
publications with a familiar kind of Preface, addressed
nominally to the Public at large, but really to a character
with whom he felt entitled to use far greater freedom. He
meant it for that one congenial friend -- more comprehensive
of his purposes, more appreciative of his success, more
indulgent of his short-comings, and, in all respects, closer
and kinder than a brother -- that all-sympath . . .
