The Blithedale Romance

The Blithedale Romance
First edition title page.
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
GenreRomantic, Historical Fiction
PublisherTicknor and Fields
Publication date
1852
Pages287
TextThe Blithedale Romance at Wikisource

The Blithedale Romance is a novel by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne published in 1852. It is the third major "romance", as he called the form. Its setting is a utopian socialist farming commune based on Brook Farm, of which Hawthorne was a founding member and where he lived in 1841. The novel dramatizes the conflict between the commune's ideals and the members' private desires and romantic rivalries.


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