false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371552m/50776.jpg 50776 54 1894. Hawthorne, who, like Edgar Allan Poe, took a dark view of human nature, was a central figure in the American Renaissance. His best-known works include The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. Renouncing 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. The Blithedale Romance shadows the Brook Farm, in Roxbury, which was occupied and cultivated by a company of socialists. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. 1189706 book 1852 The Blithedale Romance total:811|5:109|4:246|3:315|2:119|1:22| 811 2734 1194 82 5 4 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982 Mon Dec 31 18:05:28 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 18:10:11 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jun 30 08:01:16 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 07:34:48 -0700 2009
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ETA: What I probably enjoyed most about this book is the way it exemplifies Hawthorne's idea of a "Romance": the place where the real ...more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Wed Jun 24 19:10:35 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 22:19:59 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Thu Jan 15 11:46:07 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 11:47:13 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=50776