The Blithedale Romance

Abjuring the city for a pastoral life, a group of utopians set out to reform a dissipated America. But the group is a powerful mix of competing ambitions and its idealism finds little satisfaction in farmwork. Instead, of changing the world, the members of the Blithedale community
individually pursue egotistical paths that ultimately lead to tragedy. Hawthorne's tale both mourns and satirizes a rural idyll not unlike that of nineteenth-century America at large.

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Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/28/2009
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780199554867
ISBN10: 0199554862
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Romance | General
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary