The Blithedale Romance

<p><i>Complete and unabridged edition.</i></p> <p><b>The Blithedale Romance</b> is Nathaniel Hawthorne's third major romance. Its setting is a utopian farming commune based on Brook Farm, of which Hawthorne was a founding member and where he lived in 1841. The novel dramatizes the conflict between the commune's ideals and the members' private desires and romantic rivalries. <i>Description from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.</i></p>