Classics and the Western Canon discussion

Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance is fairly short, only 213 pages long in the Library of America edition, so I think 4 weeks will be sufficient for the discussion. The style is a little bit flowery, typical for the period I suppose, but it flows pretty well once you get into it.

March 29 - Preface - Chapter 7
April 5 - Chapters 8-15
April 12 - Chapters 16- 22
April 19 - Chapter 23-29 and the book as a whole

The Blithedale Romance is in the public domain, so there are several free editions available online. Project Gutenberg offers the text in a number of formats here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2081

And a free audio recording of the novel, conveniently portioned into chapter segments, is available on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcX2b...

Thomas wrote: "And a free audio recording of the novel, conveniently portioned into chapter segments, is available on Youtube:."

The same recording can be downloaded from Librivox
https://librivox.org/the-blithedale-r...

Thomas wrote: "Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance is fairly short, only 213 pages long in the Library of America edition, so I think 4 weeks will be sufficient for the discussion. The style is a little bit flower..."


Might need a minor correction -- you had chapters 8-15 for week 2 and 14-22 for week 3. Unless chapters 14 and 15 are so important that you want us to read them twice! [g]

Fixed. I was just checking to see who was paying attention.... ; )