TY - BOOK AU - Hawthorne,Nathaniel TI - The Blithedale Romance AV - PS PY - 2000/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Autobiographical fiction KW - Psychological fiction KW - Farm life -- Fiction KW - Massachusetts -- Fiction KW - Collective farms -- Fiction KW - Communal living -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blithedale_Romance; Release date is 2000-02-01; Produced by Michael Pullen and Tom Gannett. HTML version by Al Haines; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Blithedale Romance" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel published in 1852. Set in a utopian socialist farming commune modeled on Brook Farm, the story follows Miles Coverdale as he observes the clash between lofty communal ideals and messy human realities. Romantic entanglements develop among residents including the enchanting Zenobia, the frail Priscilla, and the reformer Hollingsworth. As friendships fracture and secrets emerge about mysterious pasts, the community's noble experiment spirals toward tragedy, revealing the limits of idealism when confronted with jealousy, ambition, and unrequited love. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2081 ER -