[Gutenberg 1916] • The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains
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- Authors
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Tags
- historical fiction , old man of the mountain (n.h.) -- fiction , short stories , classics , white mountains (n.h. and me.) -- fiction , american
- ISBN
- 9780395077870
- Date
- 1935-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.08 MB
- Lang
- en
The Great Stone Face, then, was a work of Nature in her mood of majestic playfulness, formed on the perpendicular side of a mountain by some immense rocks, which had been thrown together in such a position as, when viewed at a proper distance, precisely to resemble the features of the human countenance. It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice.