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<Author>Hawthorne, Nathaniel</Author>
<Title>The Blithedale Romance</Title>
<Edition>Novels. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1983</Edition>
<Date>1852</Date>
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<loc><locdoc>HawBliR633</locdoc><milestone n=633>
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<i>Preface</i>
<p>In the `Blithedale' of this volume, many readers
will probably suspect a faint and not very faithful
shadowing of BROOK FARM, in Roxbury, which (now a little
more than ten years ago) was occupied and cultivated by a
company of socialists. The Author does not wish to deny,
that he had this Community in his mind, and that (having had
the good fortune, for a time, to be personally connected
with it) he has occasionally availed himself of his actual
reminiscences, in the hope of giving a more lifelike tint to
the fancy-sketch in the following pages. He begs it to be
understood, however, that he has considered the Institution
itself as not less fairly t . . .
