Download or read book Penguin Island written by Anatole France and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2020-10-04T20:22:36Z with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penguin Island, published by Anatole France in 1908, is a comic novel that satirizes the history of France, from its prehistory to the author’s vision of a distant future. After setting out on a storm-tossed voyage of evangelization, the myopic St. Maël finds himself on an island populated by penguins. Mistaking them to be humans, Maël baptizes them—touching off a dispute in Heaven and ushering the Penguin nation into history. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.