num_pages: 247
description: Abjuring the city for a pastoral life, a group of utopians set out to reform a dissipated America. But the group is a powerful mix of competing ambitions and its idealism finds little satisfaction in farmwork. Instead, of changing the world, the members of the Blithedale communityindividually pursue egotistical paths that ultimately lead to tragedy. Hawthorne's tale both mourns and satirizes a rural idyll not unlike that of nineteenth-century America at large.
language: English
title: The Blithedale Romance
titlecomplete: The Blithedale Romance
genres: Fiction, American, Classic Literature, School, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 5716
publisher: Oxford University Press