The Blithedale Romance(II) 福谷传奇（英文版） (English Edition)

The Blithedale Romance (1852) is the third major romance of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Henry James called it "the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's "unhumorous fictions." In the novel's preface, Hawthorne describes his memories of this temporary home as "essentially a daydream, and yet a fact" which he employs as "an available foothold between fiction and reality." The story takes place primarily in the utopian community of Blithedale, presumably in the mid-1800s. A group of Utopians, dispirited by America they view as dissolute. The main character, Miles Coverdale, embarks on a quest for the betterment of the world through the agrarian lifestyle and community of the Blithedale Farm. but finds little satisfaction in its socialist living experiments. Little by little, the members' hypocrisies, contradictions, and ideological and economic paradoxes are exposed — even as they attempt to create the ideal community. An intense friendship develops among these four during the spring and summer begins to disintegrate as autumn approaches and ultimately ends in tragedy.

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