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The Life of the Weevil

by Jean-Henri Fabre, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

EN·~6 hours·18 chapters

Chapters

18 total

Translator’s Note

1:14

Chapter i - THE OLD WEEVILS

22:12

Chapter ii - THE SPOTTED LARINUS

33:44

Chapter iii - THE BEAR LARINUS

20:30

Chapter iv - THE BOTANICAL INSTINCT

16:52

Chapter v - THE ELEPHANT WEEVIL

31:33

Chapter vi - THE NUT-WEEVIL

24:37

Chapter vii - THE POPLAR-WEEVIL

20:25

Chapter viii - THE VINE-WEEVIL

18:32

Chapter ix - OTHER LEAF-ROLLERS

23:20

Description

"The essays on weevils contained in the Souvenirs entomologiques."--Translator's note.

Details

Language

Duration

~6 hours (366K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

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)

Release date

2021-11-29

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Beetles

About the authors

Jean-Henri Fabre

1823–1915

Best known for turning close observation into vivid storytelling, this French naturalist wrote classic books that made the hidden lives of insects feel immediate and surprising. Largely self-taught, he combined patient fieldwork with a warm, clear writing style that still feels fresh today.

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Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

1865–1921

A gifted translator and man of letters, he helped bring major European writers to English-speaking readers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His own novels and translated works reflect a lively career spent moving between languages, cultures, and literary worlds.

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