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The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains

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First published: 1850
Pages: 40

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Introduction
28:44
The Great Stone Face
27:59
The Ambitious Guest
23:34
The Great Carbuncle
42:37
Sketches From Memory
19:57

The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains (1882) is a public domain work.

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High above a settled valley, a formation of mountain rocks resembles a kindly human face. Young Ernest hears his mother tell a prophecy linking that likeness with a future figure of exceptional greatness, and the story becomes part of his daily thoughts. Nathaniel Hawthorne sets this tale among cottages, farms and mills, letting a striking feature of the landscape shape the hopes of the people beneath it.

The collection brings together "The Great Stone Face," "The Ambitious Guest," "The Great Carbuncle" and "Sketches from Memory." Its White Mountains setting also holds a fireside conversation in which a family and a stranger speak about wishes, recognition and how they hope to be remembered. Readers can explore the meeting of local scenery, inherited stories and private ambition through short fiction that turns a mountain view or a household gathering into a subject for reflection.