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The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Blithedale Romance By Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne


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The narrator of this novel flees the city for Blithedale Farm, intending to reform America with like-minded companions. However, the members of the community pursue egotistical paths which lead to tragedy. Aimed at students from A-level upwards, this volume contains explanatory notes.

The Blithedale Romance Summary

The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Based on Hawthorne's own experience of a Utopian socialist community outside Boston, The Blithedale Romance tells of the attempts of a like-minded group to begin reforming a dissipated America. However, rather than dropping bad habits and changing the world, Coverdale the prurient bachelor, Hollingsworth the furious philanthropist, Zenobia the voluptuous feminist, and Priscilla the vulnerable seamstress soon find themselves pursuing egotistical paths which must lead ultimately to tragedy. Evoking a bright rural idyll which fails to survive the ravages of lust and power, Hawthorne cynically undermines the fatuities of nineteenth-century American idealism. This book is intended for general; students from A-level upwards following courses on American literature, American studies, world literature, and the novel. explanatory notes by: Dugdale, John;

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GOR002562630
9780192825988
0192825984
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
19910919
257
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