THE ATHENAEUMThe Life of the SpiderJean-Henri Fabre
Natural History
The Life of the Spider
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textJean-Henri Fabre, a schoolmaster in Provence, spent decades watching insects and spiders on his own patch of waste ground, which he called the harmas. His Souvenirs entomologiques, of which this is a part in English, are as much stories as observations. Darwin, in the Origin, called him an inimitable observer.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 4 hr 45 min
- Where to find it
- The Naturalist’s Cabinet
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #1887. In the public domain in the United States.