Project Gutenberg 2005-04-01 Public domain in the USA. 211 Codman, John Thomas Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs Produced by Tiffany Vergon, Joshua Hutchinson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs" by John Thomas Codman is a historical account written in the mid-19th century. The book details the social experiment at Brook Farm, a utopian community established by a group of Transcendentalists in New England, focusing on agriculture, education, and cooperative living. It explores the lives of the founders and members, including prominent figures such as George Ripley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and other notable individuals of the time, while detailing their ideals and ambitions for social reform. The opening of the memoir introduces the complex beginnings of the Brook Farm movement, highlighting the influence of Transcendentalism and the desire for a reformed social order in early 19th-century America. Codman describes the philosophical underpinnings of the community, emphasizing the members' commitment to transcending the limitations of traditional society. It showcases the founding figures, their motivations, and the initial setup of the farm, establishing an environment ripe for both intellectual engagement and labor. The narrative sets the stage for the readers to understand the challenges and aspirations of the Brook Farm community, marking the start of a significant chapter in American social history. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 63.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.) HX Text Category: Biographies Category: History - Other Category: History - American 607122 2025-07-04T03:58:14.337160 text/html 606943 2025-01-11T01:31:02.699031 text/html 314425 2025-07-04T03:58:23.154106 application/epub+zip 322252 2025-07-04T03:58:17.602136 application/epub+zip 305929 2025-07-04T03:58:16.401181 application/epub+zip 579036 2025-07-04T03:58:27.654087 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 544053 2025-07-04T03:58:22.358101 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 450868 2022-09-04T08:03:47.469318 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 569764 2025-07-04T03:58:13.926152 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 569475 2012-10-13T19:52:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 569473 2012-10-13T19:52:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18903 2025-07-04T03:58:27.776068 application/rdf+xml 16368 2025-07-04T03:58:16.895093 image/jpeg 3784 2025-07-04T03:58:16.647117 image/jpeg 222143 2012-10-13T20:06:04 application/octet-stream application/zip 222105 2012-10-13T20:06:04 application/octet-stream application/zip 309530 2025-07-04T03:58:14.385133 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog