Penguin Island
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Penguin Island

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  1. 303 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Penguin Island

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About this book

This masterwork of satire is a must-read for anyone who has ever rolled their eyes at the soft-focus, heavily romanticized histories of Europe's origins that were popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In Anatole France's hilarious account, a half-blind missionary lands on a remote island and immediately sets about converting all the natives (which are actually penguins) to Christianity. Centuries' worth of historical hijinks ensue.

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Publisher
The Floating Press
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9781775419662
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. PENGUIN ISLAND
  2. Contents
  3. BOOK I - THE BEGINNINGS
  4. I - Life of Saint Mael
  5. II - The Apostolical Vocation of Saint Mael
  6. III - The Temptation of Saint Mael
  7. IV - St. Mael's Navigation on the Ocean of Ice
  8. V - The Baptism of the Penguins
  9. VI - An Assembly in Paradise
  10. VII - An Assembly in Paradise (Continuation and End)
  11. VIII - Metamorphosis of the Penguins
  12. BOOK II - THE ANCIENT TIMES
  13. I - The First Clothes
  14. II - The First Clothes (Continuation and End)
  15. III - Setting Bounds to the Fields and the Origin of Property
  16. IV - The First Assembly of the Estates of Penguinia
  17. V - The Marriage of Kraken and Orberosia
  18. VI - The Dragon of Alca
  19. VII - The Dragon of Alca (Continuation)
  20. VIII - The Dragon of Alca (Continuation)
  21. IX - The Dragon of Alca (Continuation)
  22. X - The Dragon of Alca (Continuation)
  23. XI - The Dragon of Alca (Continuation)
  24. XII - The Dragon of Alca (Continuation)
  25. XIII - The Dragon of Alca (Continuation and End)
  26. BOOK III - THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE
  27. I - Brian the Good and Queen Glamorgan
  28. II - Draco the Great (Translation of the Relics of St. Orberosia)
  29. III - Queen Crucha
  30. IV - Letters: Johannes Talpa
  31. V - The Arts: The Primitives of Penguin Painting
  32. VI - Marbodius
  33. VII - Signs in the Moon
  34. BOOK IV - MODERN TIMES: TRINCO
  35. I - Mother Rouquin
  36. II - Trinco
  37. III - The Journey of Doctor Obnubile
  38. BOOK V - MODERN TIMES: CHATILLON
  39. I - The Reverend Fathers Agaric and Cornemuse
  40. II - Prince Crucho
  41. III - The Cabal
  42. IV - Viscountess Olive
  43. V - The Prince Des Boscenos
  44. VI - The Emiral's Fall
  45. VII - Conclusion
  46. BOOK VI - MODERN TIMES
  47. I - General Greatauk, Duke of Skull
  48. II - Pyrot
  49. III - Count de Maubec de la Dentdulynx
  50. IV - Colomban
  51. V - The Reverend Fathers Agaric and Cornemuse
  52. VI - The Seven Hundred Pyrotists
  53. VII - Bidault-Coquille and Maniflore, the Socialists
  54. VIII - The Colomban Trial
  55. IX - Father Douillard
  56. X - Mr. Justice Chaussepied
  57. XI - Conclusion
  58. BOOK VII - MODERN TIMES
  59. I - Madame Clarence's Drawing-Room
  60. II - The Charity of St. Orberosia
  61. III - Hippolyte Ceres
  62. IV - A Politician's Marriage
  63. V - The Visire Cabinet
  64. VI - The Sofa of the Favourite
  65. VII - The First Consequences
  66. VIII - Further Consequences
  67. IX - The Final Consequences
  68. BOOK VIII - FUTURE TIMES
  69. I
  70. II
  71. III
  72. IV
  73. Endnotes

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