Download The Blithedale Romance Large Print Nathaniel Hawthorne Books

Product details Paperback 191 pages Publisher Independently published (December 22, 2018) Language English ISBN-10 1791853609

The Blithedale Romance Large Print Nathaniel Hawthorne Books Reviews

• I studied The Scarlet Letter at high school many years ago, and decided I would explore other books that Hawthorne has written. I struggled to complete this book. Nineteenth Century novels do tend to have a slower pace and much more detailed physical detail than modern novels, but this one was too slow and patchy in its narrative structure, even for someone like myself who enjoys Victorian literature.
  The pace was too slow, there were too many digressions, and I struggled to pick up on the novels main themes and concerns. The characters were not engaging, and the tensions between characters were insufficiently developed. There were glimpses of the writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was so piercingly perceptive in The Scarlet Letter, but not enough to sustain my interest. I looked up on the Internet the background of this novel, and it is apparently loosely based on aspects of Hawthorne's own romantic life. Sadly, that did not create the intensity often found in autobiographical threads. This is not a book I would reread.
• version is (so far) not blemished by errata/typos. Nathaniel Hawthorne adroitly depicts intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships with humanistic insight and a sense of humor still quite capable of evoking laughter. If you can make time to read this story, please try to find a place to do so away from rush hour traffic.
• To put it mildly, Hawthorne can be a bit of a slog. And I was definitely prepared for that with this lesser known work. I was, however, pleasantly surprised. Not only is it a faster paced, less obtuse work than some he's done, it's also a delightfully Gothic mystery and an interesting commentary on philanthropy and utopianism. It's certainly not as memorable as The Scarlet Letter, but it's a nice little read.
• Hawthorne examines motives of men and women trying to create a new social order based on agrarian equality. Personal interests trump altruistic goals. This is a short story for men and women trying to change their society into a utopian vision.
• Asking someone to rate a classic is pretty ridiculous. If I give it less than 5 stars, it says more about me than it does about the book! That said, I think an annotated copy might have been more useful for me, since there were some aspects of 19th century mores which drive the plot that I never did understand.
• Great book. Really enjoyed for my Origins of US Lit college course.
• The formatting is terrible for this version. Headers and page numbers are stuck in the text. No table of contents. Waste of money for those planning on using the book for studies. The Penguin Edition is much better. This version looks like someone just Copy and Pasted it from the Gutenberg Project. Do not buy.
• Stay with the story til the last page as there are a few good twists in the story line that really pull everything together!!! Great classic