The Great Stone Face (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781421806631)

THE first three numbers in this collection are tales of the White Hills in New Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had visited the mountains in one of his occasional rambles from home, but there are no entries in his Note Books which give accounts of such a visit. There is, however, among these notes the following interesting paragraph, written in 1840 and clearly foreshadowing The Great Stone Face: 'The semblance of a human face to be formed on the side of a mountain, or in the fracture of a small stone, by a lusus naturae freak of nature]. The face is an object of curiosity for years or centuries, and by and by a boy is born whose features gradually assume the aspect of that portrait. At some critical juncture the resemblance is found to be perfect. A prophecy may be connected.'

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN-10: 1421806630
ISBN-13: 9781421806631
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Language: English
Published: 02/20/2006
Pages: 108
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 65262 / Great Stone Face: A Tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne