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Maurice Maeterlinck
1862–1949
A Nobel Prize-winning Belgian writer, he brought Symbolist drama to life with plays and essays full of mystery, stillness, and dreamlike intensity. His work often turns everyday moments into meditations on fate, death, and the hidden forces shaping human life.
52 Audiobooks
The Life of the Bee
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Sininen lintu: Satunäytelmä
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The miracle of Saint Anthony
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Das Leben der Bienen
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Wisdom and Destiny
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Buried Temple
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Treasure of the Humble
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Poems
by Maurice Maeterlinck
L'oiseau bleu: Féerie en six actes et douze tableaux
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Blue Bird for Children The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness
by Georgette Leblanc, Maurice Maeterlinck
Death
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Mehiläisten elämä
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Wrack of the Storm
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Old Fashioned Flowers, and other out-of-door studies
by Maurice Maeterlinck
L'intelligence des fleurs
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Viisaus ja kohtalo
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Les sentiers dans la montagne
by Maurice Maeterlinck
La sagesse et la destinée
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Le grand secret
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Joyzelle
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Unknown Guest
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Het leven der bijen
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Mountain Paths
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Our Eternity
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Burgomaster of Stilemonde: A Play in Three Acts
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Our Friend the Dog
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Ruysbroeck and the Mystics: with selections from Ruysbroeck
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Le Double Jardin
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Mary Magdalene: A Play in Three Acts
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
Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home
by Maurice Maeterlinck
La vie des abeilles
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Gleanings from Maeterlinck
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Théâtre 1 La Princesse Maleine (1890) - L'Intruse (1890) - Les Aveugles (1891)
by Maurice Maeterlinck
La Mort
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Deux contes: Le massacre des Innocents; Onirologie.
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Haudattu temppeli
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Double Garden
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Inner Beauty
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
Le trésor des humbles
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Le temple enseveli
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Gedichte
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Children's Life of the Bee
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Köyhäin aarteet
by Maurice Maeterlinck
La vie des termites
by Maurice Maeterlinck
L'hôte inconnu
by Maurice Maeterlinck
En Sicile et en Calabre
by Maurice Maeterlinck
En Égypte : notes de voyage
by Maurice Maeterlinck
About the author
Born in Ghent on August 29, 1862, Maurice Maeterlinck trained in law before turning fully to literature. Though Flemish by background, he wrote in French and became one of the central figures of Symbolism, building a reputation for plays and prose that favored atmosphere, suggestion, and inner feeling over straightforward action.
He is especially remembered for dramas such as Pelléas et Mélisande and The Blue Bird, along with essays including The Life of the Bee. In 1911 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognized for the range of his writing and for the poetic imagination of his dramatic work.
Maeterlinck spent much of his later life in France and died in Nice on May 6, 1949. His writing helped shape modern theater by showing how silence, mood, and the unseen could carry as much power as plot.