Brook Farm: an American Attempt at Utopia

"Brook Farm" with 53 books, contains books about Brook Farm (Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman and My Friends at Brook Farm by Jon Van Der See Sears) as well as works by and about members (Hawthorne) and friends/visitors (Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau).

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Table of Contents

• Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman
• My Friends at Brook Farm by Jon Van Der See Sears
• The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne (a novel inspired by Brook Farm)
• Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossolli
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Authors and Friends by Annie Fields
• Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Frank Preston Stearns

Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), Brook Farm member  (in addition to Blithdale Romance)

• American Notebooks
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• The Ancestral Footstep
• Biographical Studies
• Mrs. Hutchinson
• Sir William Phips
• Thomas Green Fessenden
• Jonathan Cilly
• The Blithedale Romance
• The Book of Autographs (story)
• Browne's Folly (story)
• The Dolliver Romance
• Dr. Bullivant (story)
• Fanshawe
• From Mosses from an Old Manse
• The Birthmark
• Young Goodman Brown
• Rappaccini's Daughter
• Mrs. Bullfrog
• The Celestial Railroad
• The Procession of Life
• Feathertop: A Moralized Legend
• Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent
• Drowne's Wooden Image
• Roger Malvin's Burial
• The Artist of the Beautiful
• The Gorgon's Head (story)
• The Great Stone Face
• The Great Stone Face
• The Ambitious Guest
• The Great Carbuncle
• Sketches from Memory
• Grimshawe's Secret
• The House of the Seven Gables
• Journal of an African Cruiser by Horatio Bridge, edted by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Marble Faun
• volume 1
• volume 2
• The Miraculous Pitcher (story)
• Old Woman's Tale (story)
• Our Old Home (English Sketches)
• The Paradise of Children (story)
• Passages from the English Notebooks (2 volumes)
• Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks (2 volumes)
• The Scarlet Letter
• Septimus Felton
• Sketches and Studies
• Sketches from Memory
• The Snow Image
• The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle
• The Great Stone Face
• Ethan Brand
• The Canterbury Pilgrims
• The Devil in Manuscript
• My Kinsman, Major Molineux
• Tales and Sketches (story)
• Tanglewood Tales
• Time's Portraiture (story)
• The Three Golden Apples (story)
• True Stories of History and Biography
• Benjamin West
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Samuel Johnson
• Oliver Cromwell
• Benjamin Franklin
• Queen Chistina
• Twice-Told Tales
• The Gray Champion
• The Wedding Knell
• The Minister's Black Veil
• The May-Pole of Merry Mount
• The Gentle Boy
• Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe
• Wakefield
• The Great Carbuncle
• David Swan
• The Hollow of the Three Hills
• Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
• Legends of the Province House
•   I. Howe's Masquerade
•   II. Edward Randolph's Portrait
•   III. Lady Eleanore's Mantle
•   IV. Old Esther Dudley
• The Ambitious Guest
• Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure
• The Shaker Bridal
• Endicott and the Red Cross
• Twice-Told Tales, 1889 edition
• The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808
• Grandfather and the Children and the Chair
• The Puritans and the Lady Arbela
• A Rainy Day
• Troublous Times
• The Government of New England
• The Pine-Tree Shillings
• The Quakers and the Indians
• The Indian Bible
• England and New England
• The Sunken Treasure
• What the Chair Had Known
• Extracts from the Life of John Eliot
• The Chair in the Firelight
• The Salem Witches
• The Old-Fashioned School
• Cotton Mather
• The Rejected Blessing
• Pomps and Vanities
• The Provincial Muster
• The Old French War and the Acadian Exiles
• The End of the War
• Thomas Hutchinson
• Account of the deportaion of the Acadians
• A New Year's Day
• The Stamp Act
• The Hutchinson Mob
• The British Troops in Boston
• The Boston Massacre
• A Collection of Portrait
• The Tea Party and Lexington
• The Siege of Boston
• The Tory's Farewell
• The War for Independence.
• Grandfather's Dream
• A Letter from Governor Hutchinson
• about Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne
• Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns
• Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
• Nathaniel Hawtorne by George E. Woodbury
• A Study of Hawthorne by George Lathrop

Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Brook Farm friend and visitor

• The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Essays, First Series
• Essays, Second Series
• Poems
• Representative Men
• about Emerson
• Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman
• Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Works of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Brook Farm friend and visitor

• Excursions (1863)
• On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (essay)
• A Plea for Captain John Brown (essay)
• Walden
• Walking (essay)
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
• Wild Apples (essay)