The Great Carbuncle
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Languages: English, RU, French
Genre: Adventure, Fairy tale, Fiction, Short story
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A band of very different pilgrims sets out into the White Mountains to find a legendary, blindingly brilliant gem, each dreaming of a different use for it.
Characters
- Matthew — the young husband: Young rustic newlywed seeking the gem together with his bride, Hannah.
- Hannah — the young bride: Matthew's young bride, gentle and practical amid the fortune hunters.
- the Seeker — the aged pilgrim: Gaunt, sixty-year-old hermit-pilgrim who has hunted the gem since youth.
- the Cynic — the skeptic: Sneering, bespectacled skeptic convinced the gem is a mere humbug.
- Doctor Cacaphodel — the alchemist: Foreign alchemist and chemist, withered from years bent over charcoal furnaces.
- Master Ichabod Pigsnort — the merchant: Weighty Boston merchant and church elder, mindful of the gem's resale value.
- Lord de Vere — the aristocrat: Haughty English nobleman who wants the gem to adorn his ancestral hall.
- Master Poet — the poet: Nameless, unworldly poet who dreams of the gem lighting his own verse.