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Blithedale Romance.
Title:
Blithedale Romance.
Author:
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
ISBN:
9781776511600
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (364 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- I - Old Moodie -- II - Blithedale -- III - A Knot of Dreamers -- IV - The Supper-Table -- V - Until Bedtime -- VI - Coverdale's Sick-Chamber -- VII - The Convalescent -- VIII - A Modern Arcadia -- IX - Hollingsworth, Zenobia, Priscilla -- X - A Visitor from Town -- XI - The Wood-Path -- XII - Coverdale's Hermitage -- XIII - Zenobia's Legend -- The Silvery Veil -- XIV - Eliot's Pulpit -- XV - A Crisis -- XVI - Leave-Takings -- XVII - The Hotel -- XVIII - The Boarding-House -- XIX - Zenobia's Drawing-Room -- XX - They Vanish -- XXI - An Old Acquaintance -- XXII - Fauntleroy -- XXIII - A Village Hall -- XXIV - The Masqueraders -- XXV - The Three Together -- XXVI - Zenobia and Coverdale -- XXVII - Midnight -- XXVIII - Blithedale Pasture -- XXIX - Miles Coverdale's Confession.
Abstract:
The residents of the Blithedale farm wish to make it into a modern Arcadia, free from the pollution of society. But they form such a varied, self-interested group, that their efforts are in vain. The misogynistic Hollingsworth wants to turn it into a sanctuary for reformed criminals; the exotic feminist Zenobia is helplessly attracted to Hollingsworth; and the narrator is an unreliable dandy with voyeuristic tendencies. Henry James called The Blithedale Romance the lightest and...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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