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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初次讀到這個故事是2010年,當時隻是為瞭完成英語精聽作業。8年後,我來到瞭意大利北部,去過瞭帕多瓦,偶然間又翻到瞭這個故事,再一讀纔發現地點原來是這裏,有一種後知後覺的驚喜感。遙想當年,竪起耳朵聽voa慢速,都未必能把這個地名寫下來,現在卻就在身邊,是巧閤也是緣...
評分圖書館無意看到的,覺得霍桑的紅字寫的還是多溫暖的,誰知這本拉伯西尼醫生的女兒看瞭還真有點小恐怖。 不知是什麼樣的父親捨得將自己如花似玉的女兒跟各種劇毒的植物養在一起,結果養的劇毒無比。小說寫的女主人公多美麗,我的心就有多心痛,愛情還是夭摺瞭。 不曉...
評分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...
評分圖書館無意看到的,覺得霍桑的紅字寫的還是多溫暖的,誰知這本拉伯西尼醫生的女兒看瞭還真有點小恐怖。 不知是什麼樣的父親捨得將自己如花似玉的女兒跟各種劇毒的植物養在一起,結果養的劇毒無比。小說寫的女主人公多美麗,我的心就有多心痛,愛情還是夭摺瞭。 不曉...
評分初次讀到這個故事是2010年,當時隻是為瞭完成英語精聽作業。8年後,我來到瞭意大利北部,去過瞭帕多瓦,偶然間又翻到瞭這個故事,再一讀纔發現地點原來是這裏,有一種後知後覺的驚喜感。遙想當年,竪起耳朵聽voa慢速,都未必能把這個地名寫下來,現在卻就在身邊,是巧閤也是緣...
圖書標籤: 美國文學 NathanielHawthorne 哥特小說 霍桑 英文 English 人生 科學與世界
有點恐怖
評分有點恐怖
評分To my big surprise, I get off on it !
評分不亞於The Birthmark,僅這兩篇就能確立霍桑偉大的短篇小說傢的地位。
評分有點恐怖
Rappaccini's Daughter 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載