The Blithedale romance
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne ; introduction by Arlin Turner.
Contributors: Turner, Arlin.
Series: The Norton library ;; N9
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1958
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Collective farms -- Fiction; Communal living -- Fiction; Farm life -- Fiction; Massachusetts -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A group of Utopians, unhappy with dissolute, mid-nineteenth-century America, takes to the pastoral life; but the members find little satisfaction in farmwork and communal life because of competing ambitions and idealism. Instead of changing the world, they pursue self-centered paths that ultimately lead to tragedy. Absorbing 1852 novel about love, idealism, and politics bristles with Hawthorne's perceptive wit and intelligence.