The Great Stone Face: And Other Tales of the White Mountains [Hardcover]

Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 78 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company; Eleventh Printing edition (1935)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000RMTX5O
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,272,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Stone Face no longer!, June 29, 2010

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Daniel Ford (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Great Stone Face: And Other Tales of the White Mountains (Paperback)

Though I am partial to this yarn, I think that it's only fair to warn the reader that the Old Man of the Mountains tumbled off his perch a few years ago. I stood on his forehead one day in July, thirty-five years ago, and wrote about that experience and the Old Man in The Country Northward. At that time, the profile was held together by steel rods, eye-bolts, and a plastic bandage to keep the rain out. Alas, the patch didn't hold, and Hawthorne's Great Stone Face collapsed due to erosion, the power of ice, and the vibration from automobiles and trucks grinding to the height of land in Franconia Notch. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford