Rappaccini's Daughter (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781536868326)

"Rappaccini's Daughter" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in the December 1844 issue of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, and later in the 1846 collection Mosses from an Old Manse. It is about Giacomo Rappaccini, a medical researcher in medieval Padua who grows a garden of poisonous plants. He brings up his daughter to tend the plants, and she becomes resistant to the poisons, but in the process she herself becomes poisonous to others. The traditional story of a poisonous maiden has been traced back to India, and Hawthorne's version has been adopted in contemporary works.

Author: Hollybooks, Hawthorne Nathaniel
ISBN-10: 1536868329
ISBN-13: 9781536868326
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/03/2016
Pages: 36
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.07d