L'Île Des Pingouins by Anatole France
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"L'Île des Pingouins" by Anatole France is a historical novel published in 1908. When a near-sighted saint accidentally baptizes penguins instead of humans, God transforms them into people, creating a new civilization. France chronicles their entire history—from ancient times through the future—as a satirical mirror of French history itself. The narrative includes a pointed allegory of the Dreyfus Affair and skewers religious hypocrisy, political corruption, and social follies. This darkly comic tale
presents human civilization as an endless cycle of ambition, destruction, and regression. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | France, Anatole, 1844-1924 |
|---|---|
| Title | L'Île Des Pingouins |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_Island_(novel) fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27%C3%8Ele_des_Pingouins |
| Credits | Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Tonya Allen, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 68.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Satire |
| Subject | Political fiction, French |
| Subject | French fiction -- 20th century |
| Subject | Penguins -- Fiction |
| Subject | Civilization, Western -- Fiction |
| Subject | France -- Civilization -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 8524 |
| Release Date | Jul 1, 2005 |
| Last Update | Mar 2, 2011 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 365 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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