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Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Dec 1969
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Retail Price: $11.00
Pages: 242
Hawthorne's portrait of a utopian community whose collective ideals increasingly clash with the passions of individual members is based on his own experiences at Brook Farm. The novel tackles many of the burning issues of his day, including women's rights, spiritualism, and socialism. In spite of its seriousness, Henry James called it