The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains
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Rating | : | 4.15 (881 Votes) |
Asin | : | B071KL2TKM |
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Number of Pages | : | 451 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-05-21 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Laurence Goldstein said I will chuck this and go to a book store and find a good reading copy. The problem isn't Hawthorne, it's the edition. Very small print. A nuisance. I will chuck this and go to a book store and find a good reading copy.. "Great Stone Face no longer!" according to formatter. Though I am partial to this yarn, I think that it's only fair to warn the reader that the Old Man of the Mountains tumbled off his perch a few years ago. I stood on his forehead one day in July, thirty-five years ago, and wrote about that experience and the Old Man in The Country Northward. At that time, the profile was held together by steel r
Consists of: "The Great Stone Face", written in 1850 and revolves around the "Old Man of the Mountain" (Cannon Mtn.) in New Hampshire which sadly collapsed on May 3, 2003; "The Ambitious Guest", written in 1835; "The Great Carbuncle", written in 1837; and "Sketches From Memory", written sometime prior to "The Great Carbuncle" as will become obvious.. A collection of four short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the common theme of which is New Hampshire's White Mountains