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Penguin Island by Anatole France

Penguin Island

Anatole France with Frank C. Pape (Illustrator)

400 pages first pub 1908 (editions)

fiction classics reflective medium-paced
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When a bumbling holy man mistakenly baptizes a colony of penguins, God endows the animals with souls and their formerly peaceful community declines into a maelstrom of violence and sin. This witty allegory lampoons French history from ancient to m...

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