# The Blithedale Romance

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- Book: [The Blithedale Romance](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-blithedale-romance) ([The Blithedale Romance.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-blithedale-romance.md))
- Authors: [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-hawthorne), [John Updike](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4039-028-5
- Pages: 304
- Published: 1983-08-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A superb depiction of a utopian community that cannot survive the individual passions of its members. In language that is suggestive and often erotic, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells a tale of failed possibilities...