| The Blithedale Romance Contributor(s): Hawthorne, Nathaniel (Author), Levine, Robert S. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0674050215 ISBN-13: 9780674050211 Publisher: Belknap Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009044558 |
| Series: John Harvard Library (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 8.2" W x 5.5" (0.55 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - New England - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 52119 Reading Level: 10.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 16.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One of Nathaniel Hawthorne's great romances, The Blithedale Romance draws upon the author's experiences at Brook Farm, the short-lived utopian community where Hawthorne spent much of 1841. Blithedale ("Happy Valley"), another would-be modern Arcadia, is the stage for Hawthorne's grimly comic tragedy (Henry James famously called the novel "the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's "unhumorous fictions"). In his introduction, Robert S. Levine considers biographical and historical contexts and offers a fresh appreciation of the novel's ironic first-person narrator. The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of The Blithedale Romance in The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. |
Contributor Bio(s): Levine, Robert S.: - Robert S. Levine is Professor of English and a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. |