From Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
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About this Item
First American edition, first issue, binding A, earliest dated ads (April). 8vo, in the original Ticknor style A brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and with all-over decorative work in blind on the covers. 288, [4 ads. bound at the front] pp. An especially fresh and bright copy, the text-block very clean and fresh, the binding tight and strong, the gilt work unusually well preserved. A lovely copy. FIRST EDITION AND FIRST ISSUE, and a very scarce Hawthorne title in such fine condition. An uncommonly bright and fresh copy. Hawthorne's "romance' was based on Brook Farm, a community farm near Boston. It examines what progress, if any, has been made to the human animal. Blithedale, like Brook Farm, was a would-be modern Arcadia along the lines of the anti-capitalist ideals of Charles Fourier, but in spite of the lofty ideals falls prey to the self-interested behavior of its members. Though this concept for a work of fiction may sound a bit heady, Henry James called it "the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's "fictions." Hawthorne s claim that the characters of the novel are "entirely fictitious" has been widely questioned and many suggest that Bronson Alcott, Emerson, Horace Mann , Margaret Fuller and Hawthorne himself can all be found in this novel. Seller Inventory # 33086
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE
Publisher: Boston Ticknor, Reed and Fields 1852
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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