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The Intelligence of Flowers
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The Intelligence of Flowers Paperback - 2007

by Maurice Maeterlinck; Philip Mosley (Translator); Introduction by Philip Mosley

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Winner of the 2008 Prix de la Traduction Littraire presented by French Community of Belgium

The second of Maeterlinck's four celebrated nature essays--along with those on the life of the bee, ant, and termite--"The Intelligence of Flowers" (1907) represents his impassioned attempt to popularize scientific knowledge for an international audience. Writing with characteristic eloquence, Maeterlinck asserts that flowers possess the power of thought without knowledge, a capacity that constitutes a form of intelligence. Appearing one hundred years after the first publication, Philip Mosley's new translation of the original French essay, and the related essay "Scents," maintains the verve of Maeterlinck's prose and renders it accessible to the present-day reader. This is a book for those who are excited by creative encounters between literature and science as well as current debates on the relationship of humankind to the natural world.

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  • Title The Intelligence of Flowers
  • Author Maurice Maeterlinck; Philip Mosley (Translator); Introduction by Philip Mosley
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 106
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Publication date November 8, 2007
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780791472743 / 0791472744
  • Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.06 x 0.3 in (20.27 x 12.85 x 0.76 cm)
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress subjects Botany
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007001782
  • Dewey Decimal Code 844.8

About the author

The Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) is remembered best as a pioneer of Symbolist drama in the 1890s. Recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911, Maeterlinck was also a prolific and accomplished essayist. Philip Mosley is Professor of English, Communications, and Comparative Literature at Penn State University.

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