The Blithedale Romance

When the exotic Zenobia and gentle Priscilla both fall in love with social reformer Hollingsworth, personal philosophies and passions are explored, discarded, and re-examined. Based on his own experience in communal living at Brook Farm, Hawthorne has poet Miles Coverdale tell the story.

Chapter# / Title

• 1: Old Moodie
• 2: Blithedale
• 3: A Knot of Dreamers
• 4: The Supper-Table
• 5: Until Bedtime
• 6: Coverdale's Sick-Chamber
• 7: The Convalescent
• 8: A Modern Arcadia
• 9: Hollingsworth Zenobia Priscilla
• 10: A Visitor From Town
• 11: The Wood-Path
• 12: Coverdale's Hermitage
• 13: Zenobia's Legend
• 14: Eliot's Pulpit
• 15: A Crisis
• 16: Leave-Takings
• 17: The Hotel
• 18: The Boarding-House
• 19: Zenobia's Drawing-Room
• 20: They Vanish
• 21: An Old Acquaintance
• 22: Fauntleroy
• 23: A Village Hall
• 24: The Masqueraders
• 25: The Three Together
• 26: Zenobia and Coverdale
• 27: Midnight
• 28: Blithedale Pasture
• 29: Miles Coverdale's Confession