Title: The Great Stone Face

Title: The Great Stone Face Title Record # 1383987
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Date: 1850-01-24
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English

Note: First published in the National Era, January 24, 1850.

Synopsis: As a child, Ernest lives within sight of the stone face on Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire, and hears the local prophecy that someday a very great man will appear, looking exactly like the stone face. Ernest lives a long life of mildness and wisdom while various ambitious people are passingly acclaimed as the promised man. In Ernest's old age, people finally realize that this retiring man looks like the stone face.

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1984^ⓘTranslated by Maria-Ana Tupan.	Romanian	Chipul cioplit

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type
The Snow-Image, and Other Tales	1851-00-00	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Henry G. Bohn (Bohn's Shilling Series #37)		1/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	vi+ 176	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales	1852-01-00	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Ticknor, Reed, and Fields			273	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Little Masterpieces	1897-00-00	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Doubleday & McClure			x+ 192	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Little Masterpieces	1898-00-00	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Doubleday & McClure			x+ 192	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Short Story Classics (American)	1905-00-00	ed. William Patten	P. F. Collier & Son			xxiv+ 331+ 356+ 358+ 355+ 358	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know	1907-08-00	ed. Hamilton Wright Mabie	Doubleday, Page & Company			x+ 300	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know	1913-00-00	ed. Hamilton Wright Mabie	Doubleday, Page & Company (Every Child Should Know)			300	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Hawthorne	1922-00-00	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Doubleday, Page & Company			x+ 152	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
American Folk and Fairy Tales	1929-00-00	Rachel Field	Charles Scribner's Sons			xvi+ 302	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains	1935-00-00	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin		$3.00^?$: US dollar	x+ 78	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know	1937-00-00	ed. Hamilton Wright Mabie	Doubleday, Doran (What Every Child Should Know Library)		$1.08^?$: US dollar	300	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne	1937-00-00	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Modern Library (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books)			xvi+ 1223	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
The Bedside Book of Famous American Stories	1939-00-00	ed. Angus Burrell, Bennett A. Cerf	Random House			xviii+ 1347	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Blue Flower: Best Stories of the Romanticists	1946-00-00	ed. Hermann Kesten	Roy Publishers		$5.00^?$: US dollar	xviii+ 675	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Hawthorne's Short Stories	1962-00-00	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Dodd, Mead & Co. (Great Illustrated Classics)			422	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Snow-Image and Uncollected Tales	1974-00-00	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Ohio State University Press (Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne #11)	0-8142-0204-7		xi+ 488	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Tales and Sketches	1982-00-00	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Library of America (The Library of America #2)	0-940450-03-8	$35.00^?$: US dollar	1493	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know	2005-07-08	ed. Hamilton Wright Mabie	Project Gutenberg	16247	$0.00^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth
Tales and Sketches	2007-00-00	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Library of America (The Library of America #2)	978-0-940450-03-5		1493	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 1	2011-12-12	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Leonaur Ltd	978-0-85706-799-9	£22.99^?£: UK pound	544	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 1	2011-12-12	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Leonaur Ltd	978-0-85706-800-2	£14.99^?£: UK pound	544	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Tales and Sketches	date unknown	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Library of America (The Library of America #2)	0-940450-03-8	$39.50^?$: US dollar	1493	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne	date unknown	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Modern Library (Modern Library Classics)			xvi+ 1223	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni

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