The Blithedale Romance (1852) (edit title/settings)

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• Miles Coverdale: Add a description of this character.
• Zenobia
• Silas Foster
• Mr. Coverdale
• Mr. Moodie
• Mr. Hollingsworth
• Blithedale
• Fauntleroy
• Westervelt
• Theodore
• Eliot
• Priscilla
• Professor Westervelt
• Old Moodie

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• “If I had loved him less, I may have used him better.”

  Miles Coverdale

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• He had a queer appearance of hiding himself behind the patch on his left eye.

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• Or, this: That the whole universe, her own sex and yours, and Providence, or Destiny, to boot, make common cause against the woman who swerves one hair's-breadth out of the beaten track. Yes; and add (for I may as well own it, now) that, with that one hair's-breadth,

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• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

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• The reformers should make their efforts positive, instead of negative; they must do away with evil by substituting good.

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• This hermitage was my one exclusive possession while I counted myself a brother of the socialists. It symbolized my individuality, and aided me in keeping it inviolate.

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• Nature thrusts some of us into the world miserably incomplete on the emotional side, with hardly any sensibilities except what pertain to us as animals. No passion, save of the senses; no holy tenderness, nor the delicacy that results from this.

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• I began to discern that he had come among us actuated by no real sympathy with our feelings and our hopes, but chiefly because we were estranging ourselves from the world, with which his lonely and exclusive object in life had already put him at odds.

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• 'I am blown about like a leaf,' she replied. 'I never have any free will.'

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• on the injustice which the world did to women, and equally to itself, by not allowing them, in freedom and honor, and with the fullest welcome, their natural utterance in public.

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• It was our purpose—a generous one, certainly, and absurd, no doubt, in full proportion with its generosity—to give up whatever we had heretofore attained, for the sake of showing mankind the example of a life governed by other than the false and cruel principles on which human society has all along been based.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• New England
• Providence
• Heaven
• Roxbury, Massachusettes

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• Transcendentalists: Add a description of this organization.
• Socialists

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Preceded by Uncle Tom's Cabin, and followed by The House of the Seven Gables.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.3

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics › Hawthorne, Nathaniel
• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › 19th Century
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( H ) › Hawthorne, Nathaniel
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Anthologies
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics

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