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Penguin Island

By Anatole France

2020-05-22 19:36:00

Penguin Island (1908; French: L'Île des Pingouins) is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize-winning French author Anatole France. Penguin Island is written in the style of a sprawling 18th- and 19th-century history book, concerned with grand ... Read more
Penguin Island (1908; French: L'Île des Pingouins) is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize-winning French author Anatole France. Penguin Island is written in the style of a sprawling 18th- and 19th-century history book, concerned with grand metanarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography, and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island, inhabited by great auks, that existed off the northern coast of Europe. The history begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk lands on the island and perceives the upright, unafraid auks as a sort of pre-Christian society of noble pagans. Mostly blind from reflections from the polar ice and somewhat deaf from the roar of the sea, having mistaken the animals for humans, he baptizes them.  Less

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File size228.455 KB
Print pages284
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781426404054
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Anatole France
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Anatole France (16 April 1844 – 12 Oct 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and successful novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man...

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