Accompanied by explanatory annotations this edition of <strong>The Blithedale Romance</strong>1852 is based on the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel H... » 

Accompanied by explanatory annotations this edition of The Blithedale Romance1852 is based on the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.Contexts contains Hawthornes letters notebook entries and memoirsrecreating life at the utopian community Brook Farm. Other writers bring tolife the movements of this experimental era. Criticism includes contemporaryreviews Selections from Classic Criticism reprints excerpts from influentialessays up to the 1970s while eight interpretations make up Recent Criticism.A chronology and selected bibliography are included. «