The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Blithedale Romance

Nathaniel Hawthorne

432 pages first pub 1851 (editions)

fiction classics challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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The principal setting is a communal farm called Blithedale (i.e., "Happy Valley"), a would-be modern Arcadia along the lines of the anti-capitalist ideals of Charles Fourier, yet is nonetheless destroyed by the self-interested behavior of some of ...

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