The Blithedale Romance is a novel which is loosely based on Brook Farm, which was a short-lived agricultural commune that author Nathaniel Hawthorne had briefly stayed at in ...

Miles Coverdale is a young poet who goes to work on a communal farm in New England. He joins other idealists who seek to leave behind what they see as a corrupt society, and to ...

The principal setting is a communal farm called Blithedale (i.e., "Happy Valley"), a would-be modern Arcadia along the lines of the anti-capitalist ideals of Charles Fourier ...

"The Blithedale Romance" is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is the third major "romance," set in a utopian farming commune based on Brook Farm, of which Hawthorne was a ...

Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s own experience as a member of the famous Brook Farm Community, which the author describes in his preface as the “most romantic episode” in his ...

Living in a Utopian Agrarian Society Isn’t That Easy “No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not ...

Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s own experience as a member of the famous Brook Farm Community, which the author describes in his preface as the “most romantic episode” in his ...