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Houghton Mifflin (T) (1985), 78 pages
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Classic Literature. Fiction. Short Stories. HTML: This collection of tales is an engaging compendium of Hawthorne's short stories, including many set in and around the writer's native New England. The title story is a charming fable-like tale that takes as its focus a long-famous geological feature in the New Hampshire mountains (the face-like granite protrusion collapsed in 2003)..
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0000-0410-2967
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LibraryThing member ragwaine
The Ambitious Guest - (Kinda cool irony, but not much of a story. Guy wants to be something before he dies and then he dies.)
The Great Carbuncle - (Too obviously moralistic. The greedy people pay, the good people leave it behind.)
The Great Stone Face - (Interesting and kind of cool. One day a great
The Great Carbuncle - (Too obviously moralistic. The greedy people pay, the good people leave it behind.)
The Great Stone Face - (Interesting and kind of cool. One day a great
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man will come and he will have the face of the mountain.) Show Less
LibraryThing member Shimmin
A simple, pleasant set of four stories. Hawthorne's style is definitely out of fashion now, verbose and rather sentimental, but although these now seem quite dated, I found they worked well for these stories. They're simple, almost humble stories, all based loosely on some real thing or event. I
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don't think I'd want to read a lot of his work, as it feels simplistic and the style now grates a bit, but these were fine. Show Less
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English
ISBN
0395077877 / 9780395077870