Penguin Island

Anatole France

⏱ 8 minSatire

A half-blind old saint mistakenly baptizes a colony of penguins, and God is obliged to turn them into men -- unrolling the whole absurd comedy of a nation's history, from the invention of private property by a club to the head, to a modern super-city that blows itself up and begins again. Anatole France's mordant satire.

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