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Author Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Title The Blithedale romance / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Published [Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press, ©2010

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Contents Title; Contents; I -- Old Moodie; II -- Blithedale; III -- A Knot of Dreamers; IV -- The Supper-Table; V -- Until Bedtime; VI -- Coverdale's Sick-Chamber; VII -- The Convalescent; VIII -- A Modern Arcadia; IX -- Hollingsworth, Zenobia, Priscilla; X -- A Visitor from Town; XI -- The Wood-Path; XII -- Coverdale's Hermitage; XIII -- Zenobia's Legend; The Silvery Veil; XIV -- Eliot's Pulpit; XV -- A Crisis; XVI -- Leave-Takings; XVII -- The Hotel; XVIII -- The Boarding-House; XIX -- Zenobia's Drawing-Room; XX -- They Vanish; XXI -- An Old Acquaintance; XXII -- Fauntleroy; XXIII -- A Village Hall
XXIV -- The MasqueradersXXV -- The Three Together; XXVI -- Zenobia and Coverdale; XXVII -- Midnight; XXVIII -- Blithedale Pasture; XXIX -- Miles Coverdale's Confession
Summary The residents of the Blithedale farm wish to make it into a modern Arcadia, free from the pollution of society. But they form such a varied, self-interested group, that their efforts are in vain. The misogynistic Hollingsworth wants to turn it into a sanctuary for reformed criminals; the exotic feminist Zenobia is helplessly attracted to Hollingsworth; and the narrator is an unreliable dandy with voyeuristic tendencies. Henry James called The Blithedale Romance the lightest and..
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Novel
"First published in 1852"--Page 2
English
Subject Communal living -- Fiction
Farm life -- Fiction
Psychological fiction.
Communal living
Farm life
Psychological fiction
English.
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.
SUBJECT Massachusetts -- Fiction
Subject Massachusetts
Genre/Form Fiction
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781775417590
177541759X
1776511603
9781776511600