The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains

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A set of 4 short fiction about New Hampshire’s White Mountains. This encompasses: The Great Stone Face, published in 1850 and focuses on the Old Man of the Mountain or the Cannon Mtn, in New Hampshire which was devastatingly ruined on May 3, 2003; The Ambitious Guest, published in 1835; The Great Carbuncle, published in 1837; and Sketches From Memory, published before The Great Carbuncle which after a while became recognizable.

The first 3 stories in this set of the White Hills in New Hampshire. The episodes from Sketches from Memory reveal that Nathaniel hiked through the highest peaks during those times when he wants to take a stroll, although he never submitted his Note Books which provide details of those explorations. Nonetheless, there were scribbles with a garish excerpt, first appeared in 1840 and apparently presaging 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]. . .”

Nathaniel Hawthorne was a United States writer, fiery love stories, and short fiction writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His forefathers were John Hathorne, the only judge implicated in the Salem witch tribulations who did not apologize for his adversities. Then he affixed a “w” to alter his surname to “Hawthorne” so as to conceal this ordeal. He arrived in Bowdoin College, was voted to Phi Beta Kappa , and eventually completed his studies. He released Fanshawe; his first novel, though he made efforts to overturn it, sensing that it was not similarly written from his subsequent novels. He issued innumerous short fiction in magazines, which he gathered together as Twice-Told Tales.
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