Maurice Maeterlinck Books


The Life of the Bee

Maurice Maeterlinck

IT is not my intention to write a treatise on apiculture, or on practical bee-keeping. Excellent works of the kind abound in all civilised countries, and it were useless to attempt another. France has..

The Blue Bird - A Fairy Play in Six Acts

Maurice Maeterlinck

The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian playwright and poet Maurice Maeterlinck. It premiered on 30 September 1908 at Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, and was presented on Broadway in 191..

Wisdom and Destiny

Maurice Maeterlinck

Wisdom and Destiny a literary book written by Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also known as Count Maeterlinck from 1932, who was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish bu..

Ruysbroeck and the Mystics

Maurice Maeterlinck

The life of Jean von Ruysbroeck, like that of most of the great thinkers of this world, is entirely an inner life. He said himself, “I have no concerns outside.” Nearly all his biographers, Surius amo..

Mountain Paths

Maurice Maeterlinck

We shall live henceforward under their laws, which will be more just but not more severe nor more cheerless than ours; for it is a mistake to suppose that the dead love nothing but gloom: they love on..

Gleanings from Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck

In The Blue Bird we are shown that a man cannot die so long as he dwells in the memory of those who loved him. In his latest work Maeterlinck gives to the dead an objective existence. In part each gen..