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The Great Carbuncle: A Mystery of the White Mountains

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1837
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"In the White Mountains, a band of eight adventurers gathers together. They are each on a personal quest for the Great Carbuncle, a brilliant gem legendary in its elusiveness. " -- Wikipedia

First published (as by "the author of The Wedding Knell") in The Token, 1837.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1837 Cover Twice-Told Tales American Stationers Co. Collection 213
1842 Twice-Told Tales James Munroe Collection |11
1907 Cover Twice-Told Tales Houghton Mifflin Collection 173
1935 Cover The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin Collection 45
1937 Cover The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne Modern Library Omnibus 927
1941 The Best Known Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Classics Omnibus 369
1950 Selected Tales and Sketches Rinehart Collection |14
1962 Cover Hawthorne's Short Stories Dodd, Mead & Co. Collection |7
1963 Cover The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories Signet / New American Library Collection
1965 Cover Twice-Told Tales Airmont Books Collection 88
1970 Cover Selected Tales and Sketches Holt, Rinehart and Winston Collection 211
1982 Cover Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus 435
October 1989 Cover Twice-Told Tales Reader's Digest Collection 90
2001 Cover Twice-Told Tales Modern Library Collection 112
October 2004 Twice-Told Tales Project Gutenberg Collection 141
2007 Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus |435
October 2008 The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural Tartarus Press Collection 111
2009 Cover Hawthorne After Dark: 22 Strange Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne Coachwhip Publications Collection 96
August 2010 Cover Twice-Told Tales Gray Rabbit Publications Collection 94
June 2012 Cover Twice-Told Tales ReadHowYouWant Collection 263