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The Blithedale Romance (Annotated)
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Length8h 25m
About this audiobook
This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Dark Romanticism
First published in 1852, “The Blithedale Romance” is a novel by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne's third novel and third major "romance," as he called the form. is set in a utopian farming commune based on Brook Farm, an intentional community outside Boston of which Hawthorne was a founding member and where he lived in 1841.
The story loosely follows the author's own experience living on the communal property and dramatizes the conflict between the commune's ideals and the members' private desires and romantic rivalries.
Part mystery, part romance, “The Blithedale Romance” follows Miles Coverdale (thought to be a mirror of Hawthorne himself), who narrates his experience coming to Blithedale Farm. He becomes acquainted with the group of idealists who live there.
There's the leader of the group, the reformer Hollingsworth. Zenobia, a feminist, is the heroine of the story. Then there's Priscilla, her sister; Old Moodie, her father; and Westervelt, a hypnotist. They all have one thing in common; they came to the farm to retreat from a society they view as rotten.
In the process of getting to know the others, Coverdale becomes disillusioned by their hypocrisies and contradictions...
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Horror, Mystery and Thriller
Length8 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 4, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Nathaniel Hawthorne and Dark Romanticism
16XV. A Crisis
2I. Old Moodie
17XVI. Leave-Takings
3II. Blithedale
18XVII. The Hotel
4III. A Knot Of Dreamers
19XVIII. The Boarding-House
5IV. The Supper-Table
20XIX. Zenobia's Drawing-Room
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6V. Until Bedtime
21XX. They Vanish
7VI. Coverdale's Sick-Chamber
22XXI. An Old Acquaintance
8VII. The Convalescent
23XXII. Fauntleroy
9VIII. A Modern Arcadia
24XXIII. A Village Hall
10IX. Hollingsworth, Zenobia, Priscilla
25XXIV. The Masqueraders
11X. A Visitor From Town
26XXV. The Three Together
12XI. The Wood-Path
27XXVI. Zenobia And Coverdale
13XII. Coverdale's Hermitage
28XXVII. Midnight
14XIII. Zenobia's Legend
29XXVIII. Blithedale Pasture
15XIV. Eliot's Pulpit
30XXIX. Miles Coverdale's Confession
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