L' Oiseau Bleu: Feerie En Cinq Actes Et Douze Tableaux (French Text).

Paris, France Editions Fasquelle, 1956. Paperback Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of rubbing to the wrapper covers. The binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches). xiii, 175 pages. Weight: 7.1 ounces. Paperback: Pictorial Wraps. Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 – 1949) was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist, was a Fleming, but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations". The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. His plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. L'Oiseau bleu, his greatest contemporary success, was a fairy play. The Blue Bird was first performed 30 September 1909.