The Life of the Bee - BY MAURICE MAETERLINCK - 1901 - Contents - I. ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE HIVE 3 11. THE SWARM . . . . . . . 3 7 111. THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY . 131 IV. THE LIFE OF THE BEE . . . . 159 V. THE YOUNG QUEENS . . . . 233 VI. THE NUPTIAL FLIGHT . . . . 295 VII. THE MASSACRE OF THE MALES . 347 VIII. THE PROGRESS OF THE RACE. . . 363 ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE HIVE - IT is not my intention to write a treatise on apiculture, or on practica bee-keeping. Excellent works of thc kind abound in all civilised countries, and it were useless to attempt another. France has those of Dadant,...

Drama. Translated from the German and French by Rob Melrose. This collection brings together new translations of three classic modernist plays: WOYZECK by Georg Buchner; PELLEAS AND MELISANDE by Maurice Maeterlinck; and UBU ROI by Alfred Jarry; with a foreword by Oskar Eustis of the Public Theater, an introduction by Paul Walsh of the Yale School of Drama, and an afterword by translator Rob Melrose.

"To bring these three plays together into a single volume is to embrace a heritage of modernist experiment, left us by young men in their 20s living in the 19th century. It is a...

The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck. It premiered on 30 September 1908 at Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre and has been turned into several films and a TV series. The French composer Albert Wolff wrote an opera (first performed at the N.Y. Metropolitan in 1919) based on Maeterlinck's original play, and Maeterlinck's innamorata Georgette Leblanc produced a novelization. The story is about a girl called Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl seeking happiness, represented by The Blue Bird of Happiness, aided by the good fairy Berylune. Maurice Polydore Marie...