An edition of Rappaccini's Daughter (2001)

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An edition of Rappaccini's Daughter (2001)

La Fille aux poisons

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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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Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Fiction, short story, Drama (dramatic works by one author)

People

Giacomo Rappaccini, Giovanni Guasconti, Beatrice Rappaccini

Places

Padua, India, Italy, University of Padua

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Cover of: La Fille aux poisons
La Fille aux poisons
2021-07-30, Audiocite
Digital Audio in French
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Rappaccini's Daughter
2010-02-23, LibriVox
Digital Audio in English
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Rappaccini's Daughter
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OL32944842M
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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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