The Blithedale Romance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland : The Floating Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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...

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-77651-160-3

OCLC:

609860638