title: The Blithedale Romance (Oxford World's Classics)
author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
description: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), though best known for his novels and short stories for adults, also produced several works for children, including a companion volume to A Wonder Book called Tanglewood Tales (1853).
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  # The Dolliver Romance
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
  
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  INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
  
  
  
  
  
  THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE.
  
  
    
  A SCENE FROM THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE.
  
  
    
  ANOTHER SCENE FROM THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE
  
  
    
  ANOTHER FRAGMENT OF THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE.
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  ### INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE.
  
  
    
  In “The Dolliver Romance,” only three chapters of which the author
  
  
  lived to complete, we get an intimation as to what would have been the
  
  
  ultimate form given to that romance founded on the Elixir of Life, for
  
  
  which “Septimius Felton” was the preliminary study. Having abandoned
  
  
  this study, and apparently forsaken the whole scheme in 1862, Hawthorne
  
  
  was moved to renew his meditation upon it in the following year; and as
  
  
  the plan of the romance ha