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The Blithedale romance / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; introduction by Robert S. Levine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, author.
- Series:
- John Harvard library.
- John Harvard Library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Blithedale romance.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
- Farm life--Fiction.
- Farm life.
- Communal living--Fiction.
- Communal living.
- Massachusetts--Fiction.
- Massachusetts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- To be supplied : Project Gutenberg, 2010.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2010]
- Summary:
- One of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s great romances, The Blithedale Romance draws upon the author’s experiences at Brook Farm, the short-lived utopian community where Hawthorne spent much of 1841. Blithedale (“Happy Valley”), another would-be modern Arcadia, is the stage for Hawthorne’s grimly comic tragedy (Henry James famously called the novel “the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest” of Hawthorne’s “unhumorous fictions”). In his introduction, Robert S. Levine considers biographical and historical contexts and offers a fresh appreciation of the novel’s ironic first-person narrator.The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of The Blithedale Romance in The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Life
- Preface
- 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
- 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 Masqueraders
- XXV The Three Together
- XXVI Zenobia and Coverdale
- XXVII Midnight
- XXVIII Blithedale-Pasture
- XXIX Miles Coverdale’s Confession
- Selected Bibliography
- Notes:
- Title from eBook information screen..
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-05648-5
- OCLC:
- 1282601641
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