Abjuring the city for a pastoral life, a group of utopians set out to reform a dissipated America.
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Hawthorne\'s tale both mourns and satirizes a rural idyll not unlike that of nineteenth-century America at large.
Instead, of changing the world, the members of the Blithedale community individually pursue egotistical paths that ultimately lead to tragedy.
But the group is a powerful mix of competing ambitions and its idealism finds little satisfaction in farmwork.
Abjuring the city for a pastoral life, a group of utopians set out to reform a dissipated America
