The Life and Love of the Insect

by Jean-Henri Fabre

EN·~6 hours·34 chapters

Chapters

34 total

AGENTS

0:45

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE

2:08

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

3:03

THE SACRED BEETLE

0:01

THE LIFE AND LOVE OF THE INSECT - CHAPTER I - THE SACRED BEETLE

30:22

CHAPTER II - THE SACRED BEETLE: THE PEAR

23:25

CHAPTER III - THE SACRED BEETLE: THE MODELLING

17:21

CHAPTER IV - THE SACRED BEETLE: THE GRUB, THE METAMORPHOSIS, THE HATCHING-CHAMBER

31:46

THE SPANISH COPRIS

0:01

CHAPTER V - THE SPANISH COPRIS

21:24

Description

"Translation of the greater part of a volume of selected essays" from Souvenirs entomologiques.

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Duration

~6 hours (394K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United Kingdom: Adam and Charles Black, 1911.

Credits

Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

Sep 11, 2022

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68974

Subjects

Insects QL

About the author

Jean-Henri Fabre

1823–1915

Best known for turning close observation into vivid storytelling, this French naturalist wrote about insects with a warmth and curiosity that still feels fresh. His books helped generations of readers see the drama and intelligence in the smallest creatures.

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