An edition of Rappaccini's Daughter (2001)

Rappaccini's Daughter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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An edition of Rappaccini's Daughter (2001)

Rappaccini's Daughter

Taking up his place at the University of Padua, the youthful Giovanni Guasconti is enchanted to discover a nearby garden of the most exquisite beauty. In it abides a young woman, perhaps the most beautiful Giovanni has ever seen. Yet as he looks out from an upstairs window, he soon learns that, far from stemming from the gentle hand of Mother Nature, the garden - and the matchless Beatrice - are in fact the result of a monstrous abomination of creativity.

Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror story, Hawthorne's 'Rappaccini's Daughter' is an inspired tale of creation and control, and an ingenious biblical parody. Its fantastical element is brilliantly echoed in the two other short stories contained in this volume: 'Young Goodman Brown' sees one of Salem's townsmen introduced to a dark ceremony of diabolic intent, whilst 'A Select Party' tells of a magical party, set in a castle in the sky, and attended by a host of glittering guests.

Read together, these three short stories exemplify Hawthorne's key thematic concerns, and display all his art as a storyteller.
--front flap

Publish Date

2003

Publisher

100 Pages

Language

English

Pages

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Rappaccini's daughter --

Young Goodman Brown --

A select party.

Edition Notes

Published in: London, England
Copyright Date: 2003

Classifications

Library of Congress: , PS1872 .R36 2003

The Physical Object

Format: Paperback
Pagination: 90p.
Number of pages: 90

Edition Identifiers

Open Library: OL22540125M
Internet Archive: rappaccinisdaugh0000hawt
ISBN 10: 1843910357
ISBN 13: 9781843910350
OCLC/WorldCat: 51270832
Amazon ID (ASIN): 1843910357
Goodreads: 58118534

Work Identifiers

Work ID: OL455378W

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"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 adapted in contemporary works.

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A YOUNG man, named Giovanni Guasconti, came, very long ago, from the more southern region of Italy, to pursue his studies at the University of Padua. Giovanni, who had but a scanty supply of gold ducats in his pocket, took lodgings in a high and gloomy chamber of an old edifice, which looked not unworthy to have been the palace of a Paduan noble, and which, in fact, exhibited over its entrance the armorial bearings of a family long since extinct.

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Rappaccini's Daughter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne