Anatole france penguin island
Penguin Island (novel)
1908 book by Anatole France
1908 edition | |
| Author | Anatole France |
|---|---|
| Original title | L'Île des Pingouins |
| Language | French |
| Genre | Satire |
| Publisher | Calmann-Lévy |
Publication date | 1908 |
| Publication place | France |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 308 |
| ISBN | 978-1-58715-548-2 |
Penguin Island (1908; French: L'Île des Pingouins) is a satirical fictional history by French author Anatole France.
Plot
Penguin Island is written in the style of a sprawling 18th- and 19th-century history book, concerned with grand metanarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island, inhabited by great auks, that existed off the northern coast of Europe.
Penguin Island by Anatole France, Fiction, Classics
The history begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk lands on the island and perceives the upright, unafraid auks as a sort of pre-Christian society of noblepagans. Mostly blind from reflections from the polar ice Penguin Island : Anatole France : Free Download, Borrow, and ... NAWAP