Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror story, Rappaccini’s Daughter is an inspired tale of creation and control. It is published here with two additional short stories by Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown and A Select Party. With a Foreword by Simon Schama.
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 garden—and the matchless Beatrice—are 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: Young Goodman Brown and A Select Party. Read together, they display all Hawthorne’s gifts as a storyteller. Novelist, essayist, and moralist, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) is one of America’s greatest writers, best known for his remarkable novel The Scarlet Letter.
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初次读到这个故事是2010年，当时只是为了完成英语精听作业。8年后，我来到了意大利北部，去过了帕多瓦，偶然间又翻到了这个故事，再一读才发现地点原来是这里，有一种后知后觉的惊喜感。遥想当年，竖起耳朵听voa慢速，都未必能把这个地名写下来，现在却就在身边，是巧合也是缘...
评分Fantastically intriguing and tightly structured. This story bears the resemblance to the Birth Mark which also explores the correlation between humanity and science. Hawthorne evinces his apprehension of scientific progress, that is one specimen of modern...
评分Fantastically intriguing and tightly structured. This story bears the resemblance to the Birth Mark which also explores the correlation between humanity and science. Hawthorne evinces his apprehension of scientific progress, that is one specimen of modern...
评分Fantastically intriguing and tightly structured. This story bears the resemblance to the Birth Mark which also explores the correlation between humanity and science. Hawthorne evinces his apprehension of scientific progress, that is one specimen of modern...
评分Fantastically intriguing and tightly structured. This story bears the resemblance to the Birth Mark which also explores the correlation between humanity and science. Hawthorne evinces his apprehension of scientific progress, that is one specimen of modern...
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Hawthorne的的确确是我最敬服的作家之一。
评分let us join our lips in one kiss of unutterable hatred, and so die! - poison ivy
评分不亚于The Birthmark，仅这两篇就能确立霍桑伟大的短篇小说家的地位。
评分科学怪人和爱情故事的结合，rapacity's daughter的自尊不仅是对科学之恶反抗性的，也源自对生存和爱情的渴望和绝望，令人感动
评分有点恐怖
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