The Blithedale romance [Electronic resource] / Nathaniel Hawthorne
dc.contributor | Library, of America Library of America New York |
dc.contributor.author | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:55:35Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:55:35Z |
dc.date.created | 1852 |
dc.date.issued | 1993-06-08 |
dc.identifier | ota:1583 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1583 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1583 |
dc.description.abstract | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. - The Blithedale romance. - s.l. : s.n., [1852]. |
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dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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dc.subject.lcsh | American fiction -- 19th century |
dc.subject.other | Novels |
dc.title | The Blithedale romance [Electronic resource] / Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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<Author>Hawthorne, Nathaniel</Author>
<Title>The Blithedale Romance</Title>
<Edition>Novels. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1983</Edition>
<Date>1852</Date>
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<i>Preface</i>
<p>In the `Blithedale' of this volume, many readers
will probably suspect a faint and not very faithful
shadowing of BROOK FARM, in Roxbury, which (now a little
more than ten years ago) was occupied and cultivated by a
company of socialists. The Author does not wish to deny,
that he had this Community in his mind, and that (having had
the good fortune, for a time, to be personally connected
with it) he has occasionally availed himself of his actual
reminiscences, in the hope of giving a more lifelike tint to
the fancy-sketch in the following pages. He begs it to be
understood, however, that he has considered the Institution
itself as not less fairly t . . .