The Blithedale romance
Subtitle: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited by Seymour Gross and Rosalie Murphy.
Contributors: Gross, Seymour Lee, 1926-; Murphy, Rosalie.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864; Communal living -- Fiction; Farm life -- Fiction; Massachusetts -- Fiction
Description: Presents an annotated edition of Hawthorne's novel based on the Brook Farm socialistic experiment which George Ripley started in 1841 with the help of fellow Transcendentalists; and includes a selection of background and source material, and critical essays.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 415-418.