THE ATHENAEUMThe Great Stone FaceNathaniel Hawthorne
Stories
The Great Stone Face
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textHawthorne’s tales of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, gathered in one small book. In the title story a boy grows up in a valley under a cliff that looks like a great face, waiting all his life for the man the face is said to foretell, and in The Ambitious Guest a family by a mountain road talks of being remembered on the night a landslide comes down. The Old Man of the Mountain, the rock that suggested the face, fell in 2003.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 1 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- The Mountain in the Painting
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #1916. In the public domain in the United States.