The Miracle of Saint Anthony reveals Maurice Maeterlinck at once as a symbolist master and a sly satirist, turning from his misty dream-worlds to a sharply observed Flemish town where miracle, greed, and social pretension collide. In the title play, the shabby saint arrives to raise the dead Mademoiselle Hortense, only to meet Virginie's brisk bargaining, funeral practicalities, and anxious thoughts of inheritance, creating a comic clash between the sacred and the mundane. The collection also recalls the haunting force of Maeterlinck's earlier dramas: L'Intruse, where an unseen presence creeps through a sickroom toward death; Les Aveugles, in which the blind, abandoned in a forest, wait in terror for guidance that has already vanished; La Princesse Maleine, a storm-dark tragedy of betrayal and murder; and Les Sept Princesses, with its sleeping maidens and unresolved longing. Across these works, silence, darkness, and helpless waiting become emblems of fate, while Maeterlinck's own life—from law to literature, Parisian recognition, mystical influences, and his partnership with Georgette Leblanc—echoes the restless imagination behind them. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.