As a child, Ernest lives within sight of the stone face on Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire, and hears the local prophecy that someday a very great man will appear, looking exactly like the stone face. Ernest lives a long life of mildness and wisdom while various ambitious people are passingly acclaimed as the promised man. In Ernest's old age, people finally realize that this retiring man looks like the stone face.
First published in the National Era, January 24, 1850.
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| 1851 | The Snow-Image, and Other Tales | Henry G. Bohn | Collection | 16 | |
| January 1852 |
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The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales | Ticknor, Reed, and Fields | Collection | 36 |
| 1897 | Little Masterpieces | Doubleday & McClure | Collection | 141 | |
| 1898 | Little Masterpieces | Doubleday & McClure | Collection | 141 | |
| 1905 | Short Story Classics (American) | P. F. Collier & Son | Anthology | 83 | |
| August 1907 | Famous Stories Every Child Should Know | Doubleday, Page & Company | Anthology | 148|6 | |
| 1913 | Famous Stories Every Child Should Know | Doubleday, Page & Company | Anthology | 148 | |
| 1922 | Hawthorne | Doubleday, Page & Company | Collection | |5 | |
| 1929 | American Folk and Fairy Tales | Charles Scribner's Sons | Collection | 159 | |
| 1935 |
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The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains | Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin | Collection | 1 |
| 1937 |
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The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne | Modern Library | Omnibus | 1170 |
| 1937 |
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Famous Stories Every Child Should Know | Doubleday, Doran | Anthology | 148 |
| 1939 |
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The Bedside Book of Famous American Stories | Random House | Anthology | 44 |
| 1946 |
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The Blue Flower: Best Stories of the Romanticists | Roy Publishers | Anthology | 630 |
| 1962 |
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Hawthorne's Short Stories | Dodd, Mead & Co. | Collection | |26 |
| 1974 | The Snow-Image and Uncollected Tales | Ohio State University Press | Collection | |13 | |
| 1982 |
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Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | 1068 |
| 1984 |
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Himera: Proză fantastică americană, Vol. 1 | Editura Minerva | Anthology | 157 |
| July 2005 | Famous Stories Every Child Should Know | Project Gutenberg | Anthology | |148 | |
| 2007 | Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | |1068 | |
| December 2011 |
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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 1 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | |
| December 2011 |
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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 1 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection |