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英文名著3000 本 The Great Stone Face, et. al. by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1 英文名著3000 本 THE GREAT STONE FACE AND OTHER TALES OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS 2 英文名著3000 本 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE GREAT STONE FACE The AMBITIOUS GUEST THE GREAT CARBUNCLE SKETCHES FROM MEMORY 3 英文名著3000 本 INTRODUCTION THE first three numbers in this collection are tales of the White Hills in New Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had visited the mountains in one of his occasional rambles from home, but there are no entries in his Note Books which give accounts of such a visit. There is, however, among these notes the following interesting paragraph, written in 1840 and clearly foreshadowing The Great Stone Face: The semblance of a human face to be formed on the side of a muntain, or in the fracture of a small stone, by a lusus naturae [freak of nature]. The face is an object of curiosity for years or centuries, and by and by a boy is born whose features gradually assume the aspect of that 4 英文名著3000 本 portrait. At some critical juncture the resemblance is found to be perfect. A prophecy may be connected. It is not impossible that this conceit occurred to Hawthorne before he had himself seen the Old Man of the Mountain, or the