Penguin Island - Anatole France & A. W. Evans

Penguin Island

By Anatole France & A. W. Evans

  • Release Date: 2020-10-04
  • Genre: Humor

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.

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