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Penguin Island
Novel by Anatole France

Mondern Satire: A society of penguins, as a mirror of human trials and errors throughout history...
Category: Fiction; Satire
ISBN: 1-59569-029-8

Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault; 1844-1924. Member of the Académie Française) - Awarded the Nobel Price for Literature in 1921.

Penguin Island (1908) has been called "the best social satire ever written" (Toni Ungerer).

The story takes place in Antarctica, where a fictional penguin population mirrors the foibles of human beings. With the devil's help, a missionary arrives in Antartica and baptizes the local penguins. With God's help, he then turns them into human beings. As a result, the penguins must now try to figure out how to live together and create a civilization. They experience their own barbaric Ancient Times and Middle Ages, and in their efforts to create a modern age, they undergo social conflicts and devastating wars.
Written in the spirit of rationalism and enlightenment, Penguin Island is a wickedly funny, incisive portrait of religious fanatacism.

ISBN: 1595690298 / 978-1595690296

Language: English

Subjects: Fiction (French Classics, Satire, Novel)

Pages: 184

Book Type: 5.5 x 8.5 in, Perfect Bound - Paperback)

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