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The Blithedale Romance

The Blithedale Romance

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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RomanceClassic Fiction

ISBN10: 153335555X
ISBN13: 9781533355553
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 20 2016
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The Blithedale Romance is a work of fiction based on Hawthorne's recollections of Brook Farm, a short-lived agricultural and educational commune where Hawthorne lived from April to November 1841. The commune, an attempt at an intellectual utopian society, interested many famous Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, though few of the Transcendentalists actually lived there. In the novel's preface, Hawthorne describes his memories of this temporary home as essentially a daydream, and yet a fact which he employs as an available foothold between fiction and reality. His feelings of affectionate scepticism toward the commune are reflected not only in the novel, but also in his journal entries and in the numerous letters he wrote from Brook Farm to Sophia Peabody, his future wife.

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