"The Life of the Spider" by Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre. The Life of the Spider
The Life of the Spider
Table of Contents
Preface: The Insect's Homer, by Maurice Maeterlinck
PREFACE
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
The Black-Bellied Tarantula
CHAPTER I
The Banded Epeira
CHAPTER II
The Narbonne Lycosa
CHAPTER III
The Narbonne Lycosa: The Burrow
CHAPTER IV
The Narbonne Lycosa: The Family
CHAPTER V
The Narbonne Lycosa: The Climbing-Instinct
CHAPTER VI
The Spider's Exodus
CHAPTER VII
The Crab Spider
CHAPTER VIII
The Garden Spiders: Building the Web
CHAPTER IX
The Garden Spiders: My Neighbour
CHAPTER X
The Garden Spiders: The Lime-Snare
CHAPTER XI
The Garden Spiders: The Telegraph-Wire
CHAPTER XII
The Garden Spiders: Pairing and Hunting
CHAPTER XIII
The Garden Spiders: The Question of Property
CHAPTER XIV
The Labyrinth Spider
CHAPTER XV
The Clotho Spider
CHAPTER XVI
Appendix: The Geometry of The Epeira's Web
APPENDIX
Index
INDEX
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Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre
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Now, how is this miraculous explosion produced? J. H. Fabre assumes that:
'Very slowly, as the little animal takes shape and grows, this bladder-shaped reservoir receives the products of the work of respiration performed under the cover of the outer membrane. Instead of being expelled through the egg-shell, the carbonic acid, the incessant result of the vital oxidization, is accumulated in this sort of gasometer, inflates and distends it and presses upon the lid. When the insect is ripe for hatching, a superadded activity in the respiration completes the inflation, which perhaps has been preparing since the first evolution of the germ. At last, yielding to the increasing pressure of the gaseous bladder, the lid becomes unsealed. The Chick in its shell has its air-chamber; the young Reduvius has its bomb of carbonic acid: it frees itself in the act of breathing.'
