TY - BOOK AU - Hawthorne,Nathaniel TI - The Man of Adamant: (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") AV - PS PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Short stories KW - New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction KW - Historical fiction, American N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_of_Adamant; Release date is 2005-11-01; David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Man of Adamant" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story first published in 1837. Richard Digby abandons society to live as a hermit in a remote cave, convinced his philosophy alone is correct. When a ghostly visitor pleads with him to rejoin mankind and save his ailing heart, he refuses her compassion. His isolation leads to a terrifying transformation that will seal his fate forever in stone. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9240 ER -