This volume contains an English translation of Maurice Maeterlinck's fascinating 1901 treatise "Wisdom And Destiny", translated by Alfred Sutro. Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (1862-1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, essayist who was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in literature. This interesting examination of the ideas of wisdom and destiny would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Maeterlinck's seminal work.