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The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fiction, Classics, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology Hardcover - 2006

by Nathaniel Hawthorne


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A superb depiction of a utopian community that cannot survive the individual passions of its members. In language that is suggestive and often erotic, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells a tale of failed possibilities and multiple personal betrayals as he explores the contrasts between what his characters espouse and what they actually experience in an 'ideal' community. A theme of unrealized sexual possibilities serves as a counterpoint to the other failures at Blithedale: class and sex distinctions are not eradicated, and communal work on the farm proves personally unrewarding and economically disastrous. Based in part on Hawthorne's own experiences at Brook Farm, an experimental socialist community, The Blithedale Romance is especially timely in light of renewed interest in self-sufficient and other cooperative societies.


From the publisher

"Ripley, with whom rests the honorable paternity of the Institution, Dana, Dwight, Channing, Burton, Parker, for instance -- with others, whom he dares not name, because they veil themselves from the public eye -- among these is the ability to convey both the outward narrative and the inner truth and spirit of the whole affair, together with the lessons which those years of thought and toil must have elaborated, for the behoof of future experimentalists. Even the brilliant Howadji might find as rich a theme in his youthful reminiscences of Brook Farm, and a more novel one -- close at hand as it lies -- than those which he has since made so distant a pilgrimage to seek, in Syria, and along the current of the Nile."

First Edition Identification

Ticknor, Reed and Fields published a First Printing, First Edition in Coston, 1852. The hardcover is bound in brown cloth, blind stamped boards, and gilt lettering on the spine.


Chapman and Hall published a First Edition in London, 1852. The hardcover is bound in brown cloth, stamped blind and lettered in gilt. 


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  • Title The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fiction, Classics, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
  • Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 180
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Aegypan
  • Date 2006-12-01
  • ISBN 9781598181258 / 1598181254
  • Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.56 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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