Nonfiction · 1879
The Life of the Spider
Jean-Henri Fabre · translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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Contents
- Chapter I — The Black-Bellied Tarantula
- Chapter II — The Banded Epeira
- Chapter III — The Narbonne Lycosa
- Chapter IV — The Narbonne Lycosa: The Burrow
- Chapter V — The Narbonne Lycosa: The Family
- Chapter VI — The Narbonne Lycosa: The Climbing-Instinct
- Chapter VII — The Spiders’ Exodus
- Chapter VIII — The Crab Spider
- Chapter IX — The Garden Spiders: Building the Web
- Chapter X — The Garden Spiders: My Neighbour
- Chapter XI — The Garden Spiders: The Lime-Snare
- Chapter XII — The Garden Spiders: The Telegraph-Wire
- Chapter XIII — The Garden Spiders: Pairing and Hunting
- Chapter XIV — The Garden Spiders: The Question of Property
- Chapter XV — The Labyrinth Spider
- Chapter XVI — The Clotho Spider
- Footnotes
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