Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. Note on the Text xxxi
5. Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Life xxxiii
6. Preface 1
7. I Old Moodie 5
8. II Blithedale 9
9. III A Knot of Dreamers 14
10. IV The Supper-Table 23
11. V Until Bedtime 32
12. VI Coverdale’s Sick-Chamber 39
13. VII The Convalescent 49
14. VIII A Modern Arcadia 58
15. IX Hollingsworth, Zenobia, Priscilla 69
16. X A Visitor from Town 81
17. XI The Wood-Path 89
18. XII Coverdale’s Hermitage 98
19. XIII Zenobia’s Legend 106
20. XIV Eliot’s Pulpit 117
21. XV A Crisis 128
22. XVI Leave-Takings 137
23. XVII The Hotel 145
24. XVIII The Boarding-House 153
25. XIX Zenobia’s Drawing-Room 160
26. XX They Vanish 168
27. XXI An Old Acquaintance 174
28. XXII Fauntleroy 182
29. XXIII A Village-Hall 194
30. XXIV The Masqueraders 204
31. XXV The Three Together 213
32. XXVI Zenobia and Coverdale 222
33. XXVII Midnight 229
34. XXVIII Blithedale-Pasture 238
35. XXIX Miles Coverdale’s Confession 245
36. Selected Bibliography 249