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 ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist,dark romantic, and short story writer. «The Blithedale Romance», considered one of Hawthorne’s major novels, explores ...