Maurice Maeterlinck
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A new translation of one of Maeterlinck's four great nature essays.
The second of Maeterlinck's four celebrated nature essays-along with those on the life of the bee, ant, and termite-"The Intelligence of Flowers" (1907) represents his impassioned attempt to popularize scientific knowledge for an international audience. Writing with characteristic eloquence, Maeterlinck asserts that flowers possess the power of thought without knowledge, a capacity...
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English
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Maurice Maeterlinck (1862?1949) was a Belgian playwright and poet who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911. He wrote numerous plays including Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), which later inspired an opera by Debussy. Richard Howard has translated over 150 works from the French and published 13 collections of his own poetry. In 1983 he received the American Book Award for his translation of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, and in 1970 he was...
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Shirley Temple collection volume 13
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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A woodcutter's two children are led by a fairy through the past, present, and even the future to find the Bluebird of Happiness.