A young man is stopping at a mountain inn. He tells of his plans with enthusiasm, saying that he has no intention of dying before he's accomplished something that will make his name remembered forever. An avalanche buries the entire inn. His name is unknown; but his hosts are remembered with affection by their neighbors.
First published in the New England Magazine, June 1835.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1842 | Twice-Told Tales | James Munroe | Collection | |26 | |
| 1897 | Little Masterpieces | Doubleday & McClure | Collection | 125 | |
| 1898 | Little Masterpieces | Doubleday & McClure | Collection | 125 | |
| 1907 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Houghton Mifflin | Collection | 364 |
| 1935 |
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The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains | Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin | Collection | 32 |
| 1937 |
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The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne | Modern Library | Omnibus | 990 |
| 1950 | Selected Tales and Sketches | Rinehart | Collection | |10 | |
| 1962 |
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Hawthorne's Short Stories | Dodd, Mead & Co. | Collection | |12 |
| 1963 |
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The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories | Signet / New American Library | Collection | |
| 1964 | Classic American Short Stories | Barron's Educational Series | Anthology | 26 | |
| 1965 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Airmont Books | Collection | 193 |
| 1968 |
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The Birthmark and Other Stories | Scholastic Book Services | Collection | |
| 1968 |
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The Birthmark and Other Stories | Scholastic Book Services | Collection | |
| 1970 |
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Selected Tales and Sketches | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | Collection | 174 |
| 1979 |
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Twice-Told Tales: An Anthology of Short Fiction | Houghton Mifflin | Anthology | 31 |
| 1982 |
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Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | 299 |
| 1987 |
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Selected Tales and Sketches | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 162 |
| October 1989 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Reader's Digest | Collection | 227 |
| 2001 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Modern Library | Collection | 252 |
| October 2004 | Twice-Told Tales | Project Gutenberg | Collection | 313 | |
| 2007 | Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | |299 | |
| August 2010 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Gray Rabbit Publications | Collection | 207 |
| December 2011 |
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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 2 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | |
| December 2011 |
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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 2 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection |