Rappaccini's Daughter Easyread Large Edition

Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror story,Rappaccini's Daughteris an inspired tale of creation and control. It is published here with two additional short stories by Hawthorne:Young Goodman BrownandA Select Party.Giovanni Guasconti, a student at the University of Padua, is enchanted to discover a nearby garden of the most exquisite beauty. In it abides a young woman, perhaps the most beautiful Giovanni has ever seen. Yet as he looks out from an upstairs window, he soon learns that the gardenand the matchless Beatriceare not the work of Mother Nature, but rather the result of a monstrous abomination of creativity. An ingenious biblical parody, the tale's fantastical quality is brilliantly echoed in the two accompanying short stories. Read together, they display all Hawthorne's gifts as a storyteller. Novelist, essayist, and moralist, Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of America's greatest writers, best known for his remarkable novelThe Scarlet Letter.Hawthorne, Nathaniel is the author of 'Rappaccini's Daughter Easyread Large Edition' with ISBN 9781843910350 and ISBN 1843910357.