Rappaccini's Daughter (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781985061033)

"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: Nathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN-10: 1985061031
ISBN-13: 9781985061033
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2018
Pages: 40
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.08d