 First edition title page. | |
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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| Genre | Romantic, Historical Fiction |
| Publisher | Ticknor and Fields |
Publication date | 1852 |
| Pages | 287 |
| Text | The Blithedale Romance at Wikisource |
The Blithedale Romance is a novel by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne published in 1852. It is the third major "romance", as he called the form. Its setting is a utopian socialist farming commune based on Brook Farm, of which Hawthorne was a founding member and where he lived in 1841. The novel dramatizes the conflict between the commune's ideals and the members' private desires and romantic rivalries.