The Blithedale Romance
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Translator: Ji-won Kim, Hye-kyong Han
Publisher: Munhakgwa Jiseongsa
320 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
1894. Hawthorne, who, like Edgar Allan Poe, took a dark view of human
nature, was a central figure in the American Renaissance. His best-known
works include The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables.
Renouncing 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. The Blithedale
Romance shadows the Brook Farm, in Roxbury, which was occupied and
cultivated by a company of socialists.
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