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Fabre's Book of Insects is a non-fiction book that is a retelling of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Jean-Henri Fabre's Souvenirs entomologiques. It was retold by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell and illustrated by Edward Detmold. It talks about insects in real life, mythology and folklore.
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A Times Higher Education review says "It was Fabre's Book of Insects, extracts from that extraordinary man's Souvenirs entomologiques, "retold" - and with an exemplary clarity and simplicity which made me feel enlisted and embraced but never patronised - by a Mrs Rudolph Stawell. Years later I read the full Souvenirs themselves and wondered why I had not done so long before, as soon as I could read French. The magic is Fabre's own, not imported by Mrs Stawell." It was reviewed by New York Times.