Download or read book Rappaccini's Daughter Illustrated and Unabridged written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.