The Blithedale Romance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199554867)

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.

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Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN-10: 0199554862
ISBN-13: 9780199554867
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 09/28/2009
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.6
Point Value: 16
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 52119 / Blithedale Romance