Abjuring the city for a pastoral life, a group of utopians set out to reform a dissipated America. But the group is a powerful mix of competing ambitions and its idealism finds little satisfaction in farmwork. Instead, of changing the world, the members of the Blithedale community individually pursue egotistical paths that ultimately lead to tragedy. Hawthorne's tale both mourns and satirizes a rural idyll not unlike that of nineteenth-century America at large.
100 Amerikanische Klassiker - Meisterwerke, die man kennen muss : Der große Gatsby, Die Abenteuer Tom Sawyers, Kleine Frauen, Zeit der Unschuld, Porträt einer Dame, Der Rabe, Moby-Dick, Wolfsblut...
