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Rappaccini's Daughter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: Sally Mays
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"Rappaccini's Daughter" is a Gothic short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in the December 1844. It is about Giacomo Rappaccini, a medical researcher in Padua, Italy, 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.

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Classics Gothic Horror Scary
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