An edition of The Blithedale Romance (1852)

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An edition of The Blithedale Romance (1852)

The Blithedale romance

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A superb depiction of a utopian community that cannot survive the individual passions of its members. In language that is suggestive and often erotic, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells a tale of failed possibilities and multiple personal betrayals as he explores the contrasts between what his characters espouse and what they actually experience in an 'ideal' community. A theme of unrealized sexual possibilities serves as a counterpoint to the other failures at Blithedale: class and sex distinctions are not eradicated, and communal work on the farm proves personally unrewarding and economically disastrous. Based in part on Hawthorne's own experiences at Brook Farm, an experimental socialist community, The Blithedale Romance is especially timely in light of renewed interest in self-sufficient and other cooperative societies.

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288

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1900, Houghton Mifflin Company
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1900, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Riverside Press
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1892/1902, F. M. Lupton Publishing Company
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1852, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
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The Blithedale Romance
xxxx, The Nottingham Society
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On verso of t.p.: Stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins, Boston.

Publisher's catalog, dated April, 1852: p. 1-4 at front.

BAL, 7611.

Rare copy: Book plate mounted on front paste down: A collection of first editions brought together by Fred A. and Frances Rosenstock.

Rare copy: Bound in original brown cloth with design in blind tooling on upper and lower cover. Lettering in gilt on spine. Yellow lining paper.

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Library of Congress
PS1855 .A1 1852

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Pagination
4, [4], viii, 288, [2] p. ;
Number of pages
288

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24786518M
Internet Archive
blithedaleromanc1852hawt
LCCN
26006589

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