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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.

Public Domain (P)2023 Listen & Live Audio, Inc..
Classics Gothic Horror Scary
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