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"The Great Stone Face" as it appeared in The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales "The Great Stone Face" is a short story published by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850. The story reappeared in a full-length book, The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, published by Ticknor, Reed & Fields in 1852. It has since been republished and anthologized ...
we were lads together at a country college,—gathering blueberries, in study-hours, under those tall academic pines; or watching the great logs, as they tumbled along the current of the Androscoggin; or shooting pigeons and grey squirrels in the woods; or bat-fowling in the summer twilight; or catching trouts in that shadowy little stream ...
The Great Stone Face is: a nickname of Buster Keaton; a nickname of Keanu Reeves; a nickname of Ed Sullivan; a nickname for the Old Man of the Mountain, a New Hampshire rock formation that collapsed in 2003; a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne published in The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales
1850 — Hawthorne published "The Great Stone Face", a short story inspired by his visit. The story's title became an alternative name for the formation. 1869 — U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant visited the formation. 1906 — The Reverend Guy Roberts of New Hampshire was the first to publicize signs of deterioration of the formation. [22]
Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone is an 18th-century Chinese novel authored by Cao Xueqin, considered to be one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. It is known for its psychological scope and its observation of the worldview, aesthetics, lifestyles, and social relations of High Qing China. [1]
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Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne.The first volume was published in the spring of 1837 and the second in 1842. [1] The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (né Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.