Rappaccini’s Daughter

The audio edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterwork Rappaccini’s Daughter.


Rappaccini's Daughter is a short story published in the 1844 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.


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