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.
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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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