Rappaccini's Daughter

Seven dark tales from the master of the guilty heart, led by the poison maiden herself.

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About this edition

In a walled garden in Padua grows a shrub of terrible, gem-bright blossoms, and among them a girl more beautiful and more deadly than any flower: Beatrice, whom her father the physician has nourished on poison until her very breath will kill. So opens the strangest of Hawthorne’s tales, and the darkest of them stand beside it here.

Gathered from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846) are seven of his most haunting stories: the poison garden, the fatal birthmark, the young Puritan’s walk into the witches’ forest, the serpent that gnaws a man’s heart. No one has written more chillingly of the evil that hides in a human breast.

Contents: Rappaccini’s Daughter, Young Goodman Brown, The Birthmark, Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent, Roger Malvin’s Burial, The Christmas Banquet and Feathertop. Bound behind an original painting.

Details

• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
• Seven tales from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
• Solocosmo Press
• The Lightbound Library
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 164 pages