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Hothouses: Poems 1889

Hothouses: Poems 1889

Maurice Maeterlinck

Richard Howard's translation of Maeterlinck's quietly radical work is the first to be published in nearly a century, and the first to accurately convey Maeterlinck's elusive visionary force.
The Life of the Bee

The Life of the Bee

Maurice Maeterlinck

In an exuberantly poetic work that is less about bees and more about life, Maurice Maeterlinck expresses his philosophy of the human condition.
Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck

Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck

INTRODUCTION This essay on Wisdom and Destiny was to have been a thing of some twenty pages, the work of a fortnight; but the idea took root, others flocked to it, and the volume has occupied M. Maeterlinck continuously for more than two ...
The Intelligence of Flowers

The Intelligence of Flowers

Maurice Maeterlinck

A new translation of one of Maeterlinck’s four great nature essays.
Great Secret

Great Secret

Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck. CHAPTER X THE MODERN OCCULTISTS 1 BEFORE the discoveries of the Indianists and Egyptologists, the modern occultists, who — with the exception of Swedenborg, a great isolated visionary — may be counted as ...
Life and Flowers

Life and Flowers

Maurice Maeterlinck

Inspired by the nature essays of Fabre, Maeterlinck began a period of amateur observation and experiment with his apiary, eventually publishing The Life of the Bee and The Life of the Fly, as well as the essays on life and flowers collected ...
The Unknown Guest

The Unknown Guest

Maurice Maeterlinck

In the second, which will be published later, I shall treat of the miracles of Lourdes and other places, the phenomena of so called materialization, of the divining-rod and of fluidic asepsis, not unmindful withal of a diamond dust of the ...
The Mississippi Quarterly

The Mississippi Quarterly

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... and take another year, until The Romantic Comedians (1926), to perfect it. 1s Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, trans. Alfred Sutro (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1903), pp. 31, 81, 280, 302-313. DOROTHY McINNIS SCURA University of ...
The Buried Temple

The Buried Temple

Maurice Maeterlinck

A series of insightful five essays, it displays unique insights and graceful perception into the life of the spirit. Essays included in this collection are Mystery of Justice; Evolution of Mystery; Kingdom of Matter and The Past; Luck.
The Life of the Ant

The Life of the Ant

Maurice Maeterlinck

Here are the essential features of the life of the ants, a life incontestably superior to that of the bees, which is precarious in the extreme,In his unique studies of the social insects: the bee, the termite (or white ant) and the ant, ...
The End of School Reform

The End of School Reform

Maurice R. Berube

Allen, Dwight to Maurice R. Berube, e-mail, November 8, 2004. Apple, Michael to Maurice R. Berube, e-mail, December, 18, 2004. Aronowitz, Stanley to Maurice R . Berube, e-mail, November 22, 2004- Berube Maurice R. Interview with Fred ...
Barthes: A Biography

Barthes: A Biography

Tiphaine Samoyault

(letters to Maurice Pinguet, 10 November and 2 December 1967, Fonds Maurice Pinguet, IMEC). 95. Letter to Maurice Pinguet, 8 April 1967. Barthes wrote this letter straight after he had got back from his second trip. 96. Letter to Maurice ...
Maurice Dobb: Political Economist

Maurice Dobb: Political Economist

T. Shenk

Dobb, Political Economy, 337–8;Maurice Dobb, “Economic Planning in the Soviet Union,” Science and Society6.4(Fall 1942), 305. 67. “Aspects,” DD75. 68. Quoted in Laybournand Murphy,Red Flag, 107. 69. Maurice Dobb, “Socialist ...
The Theology of F. D. Maurice

The Theology of F. D. Maurice

Alec Vidler

An examination of the work of 19th-century English Christian socialist and theologian F.D. Maurice.
The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary ...

The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary ...

Maurice Rickards

A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator , and Historian Maurice Rickards Michael Twyman. Editor's introduction This encyclopedia is essentially the work of Maurice Rickards, whose death in 1998 after ...
The Idealist Illusion and Other Essays: Translation and ...

The Idealist Illusion and Other Essays: Translation and ...

Maurice Blondel

Translation and Introduction by Fiachra Long, Annotations by Fiachra Long and Claude Troisfontaines Maurice Blondel. APPENDIX Chronological List of Main Books and Articles written on Maurice Blondel or containing significant reference to ...
Radical Reformers: The Influence of the Left in American ...

Radical Reformers: The Influence of the Left in American ...

Maurice R. Berube

The Influence of the Left in American Education Maurice R. Berube ... and the Politics of the Curriculum 75 8. Conclusion: The End of Educational History 89 References 101 Index 107 For my lovely son, John Maurice Berube, born December 27,
Maurice

Maurice

E M Forster

As Maurice Hall makes his way through a traditional English education, he projects an outer confidence that masks troubling questions about his own identity.
Handbook of Israel: Major Debates

Handbook of Israel: Major Debates

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Roumani, Maurice M. “The Military, Ethnicity, and Integration in Israel – Revisited. ” In Ethnicity, Integration, and the Military, edited by Henry Dietz, Jerrold Elkin, and Maurice Roumani, 51–80. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991. Roumani, Maurice ...
Papers on Capitalism, Development and Planning

Papers on Capitalism, Development and Planning

Maurice Dobb

This volume consists of lectures and articles by Maurice Dobb selected from among those delivered or written by him during the 1950s and 60s.
Fred Wilson: objects and installations 1979-2000

Fred Wilson: objects and installations 1979-2000

Maurice Berger

Edited by John Alan Farmer and Antonia Gardner. Essays by Maurice Berger, Jennifer Gonzalez.
Studies in Medieval History Presented to Frederick Maurice ...

Studies in Medieval History Presented to Frederick Maurice ...

Richard William Hunt

A group of essays on medieval England collected and published to honor Sir Maurice Powicke.
Halfmen Of O

Halfmen Of O

Maurice Gee

From the multi-award-winning author, Maurice Gee.

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