Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy]

Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook.

Genre: tragedy

In a shadowed corner of old Padua, a young scholar named Giovanni Guasconti arrives to continue his studies and finds himself drawn to a mysterious garden unlike any he has ever seen. Tended by the brilliant and secretive Dr. Rappaccini, the walled enclosure blooms with vivid, almost unnatural beauty - and an undercurrent of danger that seems to cling to every leaf and petal. From his window, Giovanni glimpses Beatrice, Rappaccini's secluded daughter, moving among the plants with an eerie grace, as if she belongs to the garden as much as it belongs to her. As Giovanni's fascination turns to love, he is pulled into a tense struggle between devotion and suspicion, innocence and experience, and the competing ambitions of men who claim to act in the name of science and mercy. With its intoxicating atmosphere and moral unease, Hawthorne's tale explores obsession, the costs of tampering with nature, and the tragic consequences of trying to possess or purify what we do not fully understand.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:24:20) Chapter 2

(00:55:21) Chapter 3

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