| The Great Stone Face Contributor(s): Hawthorne, Nathaniel (Author), 1stworld Library (Editor) |
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ISBN: 159540113X ISBN-13: 9781595401137 Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society OUR PRICE: $10.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.18" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.24 lbs) 76 pages |
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| Quiz #: 65262 Reading Level: 5.2 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
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| Publisher Description: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - 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.' |