The Great Stone Face: By Nathaniel Hawthorne - Illustrated - Softcover

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1. Font adjustments & biography included
2. Unabridged (100% Original content)
3. Illustrated

About The Great Stone Face by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Great Stone Face by Nathaniel Hawthorne attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time so that everyone can enjoy them. And what was the Great Stone Face? Embosomed amongst a family of lofty mountains, there was a valley so spacious that it contained many thousand inhabitants. Some of these good people dwelt in log-huts, with the black forest all around them, on the steep and difficult hill-sides. Others had their homes in comfortable farm-houses, and cultivated the rich soil on the gentle slopes or level surfaces of the valley. Others, again, were congregated into populous villages, where some wild, highland rivulet, tumbling down from its birthplace in the upper mountain region, had been caught and tamed by human cunning, and compelled to turn the machinery of cotton-factories. The inhabitants of this valley, in short, were numerous, and of many modes of life. But all of them, grown people and children, had a kind of familiarity with the Great Stone Face, although some possessed the gift of distinguishing this grand natural phenomenon more perfectly than many of their neighbors.