Brook Farm : the dark side of utopia / Sterling F. Delano.

"Life at Brook Farm resembled an Arcadian adventure, in which the days began with the choir singing Mozart and Haydn and ended with drama and dancing. But how accurate is this image? In the first comprehensive examination of the famous utopian community in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Sterling...

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Main Author: Delano, Sterling F., 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
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