Penguin Island
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Publisher Description
Penguin Island, published by Anatole France in 1908, is a comic novel that satirizes the history of France, from its prehistory to the author’s vision of a distant future.
After setting out on a storm-tossed voyage of evangelization, the myopic St. Maël finds himself on an island populated by penguins. Mistaking them to be humans, Maël baptizes them—touching off a dispute in Heaven and ushering the Penguin nation into history.
GENRE
Humor
RELEASED
2020
October 4
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
341
Pages
PUBLISHER
Standard Ebooks
SELLER
Standard Ebooks L3C
SIZE
684.1
KB
Customer Reviews
Eschiss1
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Terrific satire
I’ve meant to reread this in the 8-odd years since I first read it, and might still. Some events/satires are more specific to the author’s time - but not so very many, I think. The work is pointed, funny and carries very well…
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