The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781533355553 - May 20, 2016
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The Blithedale Romance

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.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 20, 2016
ISBN13 9781533355553
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 280
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 15 mm   ·   376 g
Language English  

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