THE ATHENAEUMThe Blithedale RomanceNathaniel Hawthorne
Novel
The Blithedale Romance
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textHawthorne’s novel of 1852, set in a community of reformers not unlike Brook Farm, where he spent most of 1841 and shovelled manure to pay for his share. Its narrator, Miles Coverdale, watches everyone and commits himself to nothing. Readers have looked for Margaret Fuller in its Zenobia ever since, though Hawthorne’s preface asks them not to look for real people.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 5 hr 10 min
- Where to find it
- Walden Pond
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #2081. In the public domain in the United States.