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Penguin Island
First published 1909 Reading time about 6 hours
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.
- Satire
- Penguins · Fiction
- Civilization, Western · Fiction
- France · Civilization · Fiction
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