Jean Fabre: 53 books

Great French entomologist's charming essays on insect life combine scientific rigor with the style of a literary classic. Beautifully written passages reveal the intricate, fascinating worlds of the beetle, cicada, praying mantis, glow-worm, wasp, grub, cricket, locust, and other creatures as they hunt, build nests, feed families, and more. Rare volume will delight any naturalist.

A continuation of the very popular Very Christmas Series, this collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant volume featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century author Irène Némirovsky...

The Life of the Spider is a volume in Jean-Henri Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques", in which he shares fifty years of careful observation. He re-acquaints us with the most everyday insects, inspiring a new interest, awareness and understanding in the reader. This volume concerns spiders.

Jean-Henri Fabre est non seulement un grand entomologiste, mais aussi un magnifique «vulgarisateur», au meilleur sens du terme. Avec lui, l'homme ne s'efface pas devant le scientifique, il est toujours présent. Il nous entraîne, tout au long des 10 volumes de ses souvenirs, dans la passionnante découverte du monde inconnu des insectes.

Nos arrière-grands-pères seraient certes bien étonnés, s’ils voyaient toutes les transformations que notre terre a subies, depuis qu’ils l’ont quittée pour un autre monde : les voyages accomplis sans chevaux sur les routes, sans voiles sur les mers, avec la rapidité du vent; nos messages...

Ce sixième volume, comme les précédents, est une étude scientifique du plus haut intérêt sur divers insectes, agrémentée de passages sur les idées et l'histoire de l'auteur, fort intéressants, en particulier celui sur sa jeunesse et son éducation campagnarde auprès d'un instituteur «fleurant...

Lorsqu’un crime est commis, les villages assoupis se réveillent brusquement ! En s’appuyant sur des archives inédites de la gendarmerie, Jean Pierre Fabre et Claire Julliard nous dévoilent une France profonde dont certains habitants se révèlent de surprenants assassins. Une France méconnue...

Fabre had many scholarly achievements. He was a popular teacher, physicist, chemist, and botanist. However, he is probably best known for his findings in the field of entomology, the study of insects, and is considered by many to be the father of modern entomology. Much of his enduring popularity...

The present volume contains all the essays on flies, or Diptera, from the Souvenirs entomologiques, to which I have added, in order to make the dimensions uniform with those of the other volumes of the series, the purely autobiographical essays comprised in the Souvenirs. These essays, though they have...

Fabre had many scholarly achievements. He was a popular teacher, physicist, chemist, and botanist. However, he is probably best known for his findings in the field of entomology, the study of insects, and is considered by many to be the father of modern entomology. Much of his enduring popularity...

ONE evening, at twilight, they were assembled in a group, all six of them. Uncle Paul was reading in a large book. He always reads to rest himself from his labors, finding that after work nothing refreshes so much as communion with a book that teaches us the best that others have done, said, and thought....

A wonderful introduction to common farm animals and life in the countryside for young readers. Written as a grandfather talking to his family this book is full of beautiful imagery and information. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely...

An introduction to Bible study that will change the way you read and respond to the Word of God. Three simple Bible studies, each examining texts from the Old and New Testaments, highlighting their thematic unity: - God’s gift of a savior (Moses and Jesus) - God’s covenant with his people (Sinai...