Giovanni falls in love with Beatrice, the daughter of a scientist whose garden of poisonous plants has left her lethal to the touch of any ordinary being, and must decide whether he can love her without destroying her.
Books that mention Rappaccini's Daughter (1)
Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan by Lafcadio Hearn: “The marvelous tale of "Rappacini's Daughter" proved greatly to their liking; and the spirit of Hawthorne might have found no little ghostly pleasure in their interpretation of it.”