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The Life of the Weevil

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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.

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Duration

~6 hours (366K characters)

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Project Gutenberg

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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.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66844

Subjects

Beetles QL

About the authors

Jean-Henri Fabre

1823–1915

A patient observer of insects and the natural world, this French naturalist turned close watching into lively, memorable science writing. His books helped generations of readers see everyday creatures with fresh curiosity.

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Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

1865–1921

Best known as a gifted translator, he helped bring major European writers to English-speaking readers at the turn of the 20th century. His career also ranged through journalism, literary criticism, and publishing, giving him a wide view of the literary world.

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