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Maurice Maeterlinck
1862–1949
A quiet, dreamlike voice in European literature, this Belgian writer helped shape Symbolist drama and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. His plays and essays often turn simple images—silence, fate, light, bees, blue birds—into something haunting and memorable.
52 Audiobooks
The Life of the Bee
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Sininen lintu: Satunäytelmä
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The miracle of Saint Anthony
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Das Leben der Bienen
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Wisdom and Destiny
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Treasure of the Humble
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Poems
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Buried Temple
by Maurice Maeterlinck
L'oiseau bleu: Féerie en six actes et douze tableaux
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Death
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Mehiläisten elämä
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Wrack of the Storm
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Viisaus ja kohtalo
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Blue Bird for Children The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness
by Georgette Leblanc, Maurice Maeterlinck
Les sentiers dans la montagne
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Old Fashioned Flowers, and other out-of-door studies
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Unknown Guest
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Le grand secret
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Joyzelle
by Maurice Maeterlinck
La sagesse et la destinée
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Het leven der bijen
by Maurice Maeterlinck
L'intelligence des fleurs
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Ruysbroeck and the Mystics: with selections from Ruysbroeck
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Mountain Paths
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Our Friend the Dog
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Our Eternity
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Le Double Jardin
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Burgomaster of Stilemonde: A Play in Three Acts
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Gleanings from Maeterlinck
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Double Garden
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Théâtre 1 La Princesse Maleine (1890) - L'Intruse (1890) - Les Aveugles (1891)
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Deux contes: Le massacre des Innocents; Onirologie.
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Mary Magdalene: A Play in Three Acts
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Inner Beauty
by Maurice Maeterlinck
La vie des abeilles
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Haudattu temppeli
by Maurice Maeterlinck
La Mort
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Pelléas et Mélisande: Drame lyrique en cinq actes Tiré du théâtre de Maurice Maeterlinck; Musique de Claude Debussy
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Kuolema
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Les fiançailles: Féerie en cinq actes et onze tableaux
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Betrothal A Sequel to the Blue Bird; A Fairy Play in Five Acts and Eleven Scenes
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Gedichte
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Le trésor des humbles
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Le temple enseveli
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Children's Life of the Bee
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Köyhäin aarteet
by Maurice Maeterlinck
En Égypte : notes de voyage
by Maurice Maeterlinck
L'hôte inconnu
by Maurice Maeterlinck
En Sicile et en Calabre
by Maurice Maeterlinck
La vie des termites
by Maurice Maeterlinck
About the author
Born in Ghent, Belgium, on August 29, 1862, he became one of the best-known writers of the Symbolist movement. Although Flemish by background, he wrote in French, and his early plays brought him wide attention for their mysterious mood, spare dialogue, and sense of unseen forces shaping ordinary lives.
He is especially remembered for works such as Pelléas et Mélisande and The Blue Bird, as well as essays including The Life of the Bee. In 1911, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in recognition of his wide-ranging literary work, especially his poetic and imaginative drama.
Later in life he continued to write essays, plays, and reflections on nature and the inner life. He died in Nice, France, on May 6, 1949, leaving behind work that still feels unusual for the way it mixes fairy-tale simplicity with philosophical depth.