Download or read book The Blithedale Romance written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Blithedale Romance" is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is the third major "romance," set in a utopian farming commune based on Brook Farm, of which Hawthorne was a founding member and where he lived in 1841. The novel centers on the conflict between the commune's ideals and the members' private desires and romantic rivalries.