The Blithedale Romance

Nathaniel Hawthorne

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

A detached poet joins a little band of idealists founding a utopian farm, and watches the high dream tangle at once in jealousy and passion, the monomaniac reformer, the tragic Zenobia, and the frail clairvoyant Priscilla. Hawthorne's wry, melancholy romance of a failed utopia, drawn from Brook Farm.

Listen to the whole of The Blithedale Romance in about 8 minutes — professionally narrated, with Apple-Music-style synced subtitles. One book free every day; Folio Premium unlocks the entire library.