The Life of the Bee

by Maurice Maeterlinck and Alfred Sutro

Book Overview

In an exuberantly poetic work that is less about bees and more about life, Maurice Maeterlinck expresses his philosophy of the human condition. The renowned Belgian poet and dramatist offers brilliant proof in this, his most popular work, that "no living creature, not even man, has achieved in the center of his sphere, what the bee has achieved." From their amazingly intricate feats of architecture to their intrinsic sense of self-sacrifice, Maeterlinck...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486451437
• ISBN13: 9780486451435
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

An old classic

The date on this item is misleading. It was written in 1901 in French and then translated into English by Alfred Sutro and published in English in 1910. It is a classic bee book written in a lively style. It's reasonably accurate, for a book so old, and has a nice readable style. Maeterlinck, the author describes it thus: "It is not my intention to write a treatise on apiculture, or on practical bee-keeping...I wish to speak of the bees very simply, as one speaks of a subject one knows and loves to those who know it not." I believe he succeded very well.