The Blithedale Romance
first publication date: 1852
genre: romantic fiction, fantasy
original title: The Blithedale Romance
original language: English
narrative location: Massachusetts
The Blithedale Romance is a novel by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne published in 1852. It is the third major "romance", as he called the form. Its setting is a utopian farming commune based on Brook Farm, of which Hawthorne was a founding member and where he lived in 1841. The novel dramatizes the conflict between the commune's ideals and the members' private desires and romantic rivalries. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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