The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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About This Book
Abjuring 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.About the For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each...
Chapters (32)
- The Blithedale Romance
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 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 MASQUERADERS
- XXV. THE THREE TOGETHER
- XXVI. ZENOBIA AND COVERDALE
- XXVII. MIDNIGHT
- XXVIII. BLITHEDALE PASTURE
- XXIX. MILES COVERDALE'S CONFESSION
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