The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Get The Blithedale Romance from Amazon.com

The Blithedale Romance Summary
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Everything you need to understand or teach The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The Blithedale Romance Summary & Study Guide
1 eBook
1 Student Essay
2 Literature Criticisms
...and more

30 The Blithedale Romance Lessons
20 Activities
180 Multiple Choice Questions
60 Short Essay Questions
20 Essay Questions
Pre-Made Tests and Quizzes
...and more

The Blithedale Romance Summary

"The Blithedale Romance" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel of intrigue and mystery, set in post-colonial Massachusetts. The story tells of Mr. Miles Coverdale's involvement with the community at Blithedale, especially with the mystery surrounding two of the women there, Zenobia and Priscilla. "The Blithedale Romance" is a very interesting novel that reveals the secrets that exist, even within a very small society.

The night before Coverdale goes to Blithedale, Mr...

(read more from the Study Guide)

Study Pack

The The Blithedale Romance Study Pack contains:

The Blithedale Romance Study Guide

Plot Summary

Chapter Summaries

Free Quiz

Characters

Objects/Places

Themes

Style

Quotes

Topics for Discussion

Project Gutenberg eBooks (1)

The Blithedale Romance

82,742 words, approx. 276 pages

I. OLD MOODIE The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shab... Read more

Nathaniel Hawthorne Biographies (7)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

2,822 words, approx. 10 pages

The work of American fiction writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was based on the history of his Puritan ancestors and the New England of his own day but, in its "power of blackness," has universal... Read more

Nathaniel Hawthorne

5,757 words, approx. 20 pages

Nathaniel Hawthorne was fond of calling himself the "obscurist man of letters in America." Indeed, Edgar Allan Poe, with whom Hawthorne basically created the short story form in America, once said tha... Read more

Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,561 words, approx. 29 pages

In sketches, tales, and romances published in the second third of the nineteenth century, Hawthorne chose mainly American materials, drawing especially on the history of colonial New England and his n... Read more

Nathaniel Hawthorne

11,949 words, approx. 40 pages

When Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on our most patriotic holiday in 1804, his ancestral roots were already deeply planted in New England. Writing in The Scarlet Letter (1850) o... Read more

Nathaniel Hawthorne

6,695 words, approx. 23 pages

On 9 July 1842 Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody were married in a simple ceremony that capped a courtship of nearly five years. Thus Hawthorne, at the age of thirty-eight, assumed his role as he... Read more

Nathaniel Hawthorne

16,142 words, approx. 54 pages

Although Nathaniel Hawthorne called himself "the obscurest man in American letters," his achievements in fiction, both as short-story writer and novelist, offer models fashioned too well for contempor... Read more

Nathaniel Hawthorne

9,025 words, approx. 31 pages

Biography EssayIn sketches, tales, and romances published in the second third of the nineteenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne chose mainly American materials, drawing especially on the history of colon... Read more

Essays & Analysis (3)

Critical Essay by Taylor Stoehr

5,680 words, approx. 19 pages

Read more

Critical Essay by Naomi Jacobs

6,273 words, approx. 21 pages

1,905 words, approx. 7 pages

In the nineteenth century domestic, maternal women were considered the ideal. Several authors challenged this ideal while others glorified it and showed it as completely pragmatic. After all, who bett... Read more

Download the Study Pack